"FRIENDS" 1
(Written in 1995)

"Friends", can you visit me

Without giving me any more pain?

Can you try to understand

My wandering heart and spirit?

Will you leave the world behind

And free us both from cares?

"Friends", can you anymore

Pass through my life

Without further burdening

And making my life

More unbearable?

Where is your simple-ness?

Where is your peacefulness?

Caught up in making a living

And condemning those who can't?

Why do you persist in inflicting

Your narrow, stressed-out lives

Upon those who need peace and quiet?

Can you not cease making my life

A further unbearable burden?