To be or not?

To be or not to be?
A lover or a friend?
How many answers can
This question to withstand?

Where do I draw a line
Between the two?
How do I find
Who is and isn't who?

What makes a friend?
- A useful favour?
- A true compassion?
- A mutual endeavour?

How do I know a friend?
- By sweet and cosy talk?
Or by sincere truth
That hits me as a rock?

What do I get
From sweetness of confirm?
- Perhaps, enchanting blindness
of a crawling worm..


Soil soft and dark
Is truth and light
For those who seek
No further than a hide.

A friend who does not dare
To say the truth "unfair"
- What for he cares?

Is he a friend
Who throws a rock
Into my pain,
Instead of cosy talk?

What makes a lover to a friend?
A friend  - to lover?
- A loss? a gain of love?
Or maybe none and never?

Can lover be my stranger,
Who shares flash and blood,
When skin to skin is boiling
And heart beets to a heart?

What less can I desire
From a loyal lover,
Than innocence of naked heart,
A reciprocity of selfless fire
And depth of pleasures to discover?

Where do I draw a line?
Where lover grows?
Where friend declines?
Why don’t I let to go
The prison of a desperate mind?!
Don’t miss the show of life,
Don’t let it make you blind!

Abandon square box of lies,
And trust your heart to love,
And follow with the flow of Niles!

2012