I never asked for this.
You took my silence
As an outstretched hand,
An invisible offering you saw,
To tell unsolicited tales
Of your failed romances
When I am but a stranger to you.
When fragile threads of yours grew thin,
Why weigh my sleeve with your despair?
Your self-sufficient delusions
Mistook politeness for a sign,
The first offence, a boundary line
You carelessly and boldly crossed.
No duty binds me to console
A stranger’s solemn woes—
Why reconnect past a decade’s half,
Just to reveal your private battles
Of misplaced associations
Emerging once more in front of you?
Your attempts to tie yourself to me
Only filled my body with anxiety,
A complete breach of my safety,
Knowing my cordial words
Were lost on your non-existent ears.
Is it so hard to believe
That a woman’s no,
Simply means no?
Please keep it to yourself.
Past a bond we do not share,
Perhaps it is an unfamiliar word
For a boy who has little regard
About me and my feelings,
Not even considering such comforts,
No, he would never dare.
Go and disguise your spilled milk
As intimacy dressed in a suit and tie,
But a stranger is still a stranger,
So please cease these violations,
And leave me in peace.
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