This Is Not a Romance

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by S.A.W.

A boy and a girl meet, and they don't fall in love, or hate, for that matter. 

And what a strange thing, 

that friendship must be laid out, in dark ink and sharp letters. 

Or perhaps it's not strange- but it is sad. 

A boy and a girl meet, and 

‘Of course they fall in love!' 

Scream the books and headlines and people. 

Of course! 

Of course! 

The all important love! 

And perhaps it is- 

But is not friendship a sort of love? 

'Philia,' they called it of old.

Yet it is left by the wayside. 

So it must be written like this: 

A boy and a girl meet- and they do not fall in love. 

Not that kind, anyway.

And what a strange, sad thing it is, that we must spell it out.

 

Comments

[blissmorgan]

This made me immediately think of a very specific person.