I've heard tales of people suddenly realizing that they are in love with their friend. This poem is about the opposite of that experience - It is about my experience with someone who I knew as my lover and then realized that while our relationship would never work, I had found a friend I would cherish forever.
This poem originally was published in Love Poems - Love and Friendship Poems
We're Not In Love
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So often people say they found their lover in their friend. I just have to wonder if they’ve found a means to fit their end. I thought I knew you for so long, but now I’ve come to see That this man is a stranger, and you don’t remember me. For the first time in my life I wanted someone I could keep- To treasure me both heart and soul, to hold me in my sleep. When I saw you I was overjoyed, my search at last concluded, Who knew that I would come to find that I was just deluded? Because as we grew together something still kept us apart, I have your body and your mind, but I’ll never have your heart. And I still wish that we could have that true love and forever, But reality stole my happy ending, leaving me with never. And if you asked, what would I say? Would I dare to throw it all away? Would yes be right? Or is it no? But we never ask, so on we go. And still I know that in the end, You’re not my lover but my friend. This is the truth that I despise When I suddenly realize: We’re not in love. |
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