Friendship is not good.
It will rival love and confuse love
But it is not nearly as good.
Friendship is not okay.
I need to hate awhile to be in love.
So go away.
To be a friend allows some things
To happen occasionally,
Which thought and poetry
Do much better with wings.
Friendship will let the love
Which really isn’t love
Get too close and find things out
So love is crippled with doubt—
Any discovery doubts the poetry
Every time we speak the poetry.
Love is betrayed
As soon as we step into the darkening glade
Where love wandered off,
But should have stayed.
I will never trust a friend
Since you, who liked me,
Said love should end.