A friend I once knew.
She did ring a dim bell,
tucked away in some forgotten
corner of my heart,
summoning up a faint memory
from my adolescence,
before we drifted apart.
She stood there transfixed.
Her gaze, somewhere between
contempt and indifference.
Conjuring up a forceful grin,
I whizzed past her, because now
all that remained between us, was
a dignified silence.
Is too much selfless giving,
a virtue or a sin?? I ask myself.
But, no matter how much I put my
cerebral matter through its paces.
I never came up with a plausible
answer myself.
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