Friends Don't Let Friends Say They're in Love

Friends don’t let friends say they’re in love.

But why.

Has romantic eeling become such a one way street?

A promenade between the haves and the have nots that we can’t accept a little compliment?

Say you’re attractive doesn’t quite cover it.

I don’t see what is so inherently wrong in me walking straight up to him and saying

I love you.

There is no obligation, no expectation of return.

But at least he knows.

He knows that I find him attractive in every sense of the word.

And given the chance…

Well who can say where it’d go.

But for now

Just for now I’d like to tell him I’m in love.

When did our society decide that love was dependant?

You could only love someone if they loved you back?

We all profess toi be so emotionally stable

But when it comes to the emotion that keeps us on this Earth

We find it offensive, or obtrusive or execntric.

When you love some one,

Seen them in the good and the bad

Know the curve of their thumb and what their canines look like

When you’ve absorbed the moments you spend with them

Why can’t you tell them you’re in love?

I’m not saying throw the word around like it has been with Free Love from the decades before us

But when you feel it through the thick and the thin

Through the miles and the silence

When you feel it through your core

Why can’t you say you love them?

I’d want to know.

What greater form of flattery is there than to say I love you, even when I hate you I love you?

Why can’t we just say it?

                I love you.