Oh, "friends", leave me in "peace"!

Do not encumber me

With your worldly expectations!

Leave me to die

Without your tense "company"!

Decist from heaping

Your grievous criticisms upon me!

Let me alone to carry

My travails with agony in "seclusion"!

Oh, if only I could be

In the luxury of true isolation!

If only I could bask in real release

From this world's empty "concerns"!

Stop expecting me to conform

To your shallow views of how we should live!

Quit seeking to mold me

And let me, as I see fit, carry my "cross"!

Don't further crush me

Into the dirt and tears of our spoiled land!

But gently cover me with our dear earth.