Title: Catch Me Before

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All this time

I have conversed with you

As any friend would,

Laughed at your jokes

As any friend would,

Joked at your expense

As any friend would.

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I've never let you think

For even a second

That I feel about you

As more than a friend would,

As less than a lover would,

But something in the shadow-land between.

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Someone told me once

To be assertive,

To always speak my mind,

To always be honest,

And never mind the consequences.

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But if I tell you,

The way I feel,

Then will you reinterpret

Every word I've ever said,

Every gesture I've ever made,

Every look we've ever exchanged,

Every moment that ever made

Our friendship, a friendship?

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I don't ask that you reciprocate,

I don't ask that you return,

Even a little of what I feel,

I only ask that you don't look back

And dissect our friendship

To see when it became

More or less than it appeared,

Because it's still

Everything it's ever been,

And I hope it always will be.

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Do you know,

I'm so afraid

That when I take the plunge

There'll be no one to catch me at the bottom.

So please don't leave me to fall

And bleed upon the broken shards

Of our friendship.

Catch me before

Our friendship breaks

Into shards.

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