"FRIENDS" 2
(Written in 1995)

"Friends", I'll thank you

To share some little bit

Of peace with me;

Or leave me alone

To my grief and despair

Without further adding

To my sorrow,

Other than by leaving me

In loneliness and unloved;

For I'd rather suffer

Such aloneness

Than to endure

Anymore arrows

Of outrageous misfortune,

And travail through

Unutterable melancholy

Than to have your world

Placed upon my world

Already being born

Upon my exhausted shoulders.