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The "friend zone" conundrum. The ambiguity of meaning and trajectory in strong connections. The two-sided difficulty of maintaining dear friends. The grey areas throughout platonic affection and powerful closeness. The ideal of removing ownership, possession and expectation from love.

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Friend boat, stranded in a friend zone
any romantic port wine in the brainstorm
hang on, we'll get home!
candle-lit dinner and the wit and the wick withers
the laughter's wisp and our wind whispers
dance the dim fanciful flickers
Cupid's gift even to "shoot the shit"
who wouldn't wish on monkey's paws for this kind of night?
I could die! eye to tiger eye (Life of Pi)
It's Rocky inside this blind-tunnel-vision-of-love-boat
your line of stripes, I idolize
curious-cat-walking on a rope (high and tight)
thin line divides "love" and "friends" subtle gestures,
time and time again loving jester
unicycles on a third wheel hug you tender,
weather ugly tense struggles with an ex,
left high and dry...deserted in this therapeutic trend.
vertigo, avert and go through it all depressed
than risk pedaling next to the pedestal placed apex
vexed, upsetting, upending it again
as if peeking the pinnacle's peak I could ever rest/Everest?!
"loose lips sink ships", "secrets don't make friends"
but keeping secrets can keep friends safe in the end!
the issue of emotions that go without saying is:
what happens if you actually go without saying it?

Every dog has its day
I'll be your best friend
when spent with you
the evening's special!
I feel Pavlov trained,
love, I need to listen
when yes, we click
on every level!

Friend boat, jump ship,
overboard! friend zone.
"loose lips sink ships"
mum, though, in love SO DEEP!
Romantic eye-full/Eiffel (Paris tones) supple sweet,
down-trodden-periscope pair is gold, submarine!
Synced up...I long to surface just to breathe
these souls belong solely on the surface, so we
slowly float to go beyond the surf and its subtleties
never go beyond the surface and it's suddenly,
a Sir fit to hug and needy surfeits of struggling
some title, hint and tab.
suds and tide pool's grips and grabs
"but subtitles, this and that!
some tied to tit-for-tat
summarized by tiffs and tasks!"

GASP! as I drown in the jealousy,
felon fiend, fevered cabin pressure
crushed just the things
you loved to bring into the friendship,
the S.S. label came from integral letters in "possession"
and your amiable to-do expression
became
"am-I-able to do what you've expected?"
the risk expensive, can't gamble our extensive
perfection for presumptuous preference of connection

Every dog has its day
I'll be your best friend
when spent with you
the evening's special!
I feel Pavlov trained,
love, I need to listen
when yes, we click
on every level!

Oh, misinterpretations lead to disappointed anger,
feeling lead-on, weighed down by this appointed anchor
it seems that the higher that you rank her,
the more a siren's rejection inspires you rancor
looking for any port in the storm and
imagine as women, (especially talented and gorgeous)
just looking for a friend, but everyone wants more and
others have ulterior motives,
you're "a tease" or "a slut" if you're open to closeness
but at arms length,
they focus on the shoulder chips of "a cold bitch"
either way to my dismay, I can say you won't win!
my point is only this: "what's wrong with close friends?
why all of this ownership? is it a component of loneliness?"
now I tow the fine line, that you think strings along
towing you when I'm kind and produces kinks in yarns
spinning yarns like yearning heads
for those who are turning heads
think about it: we put a tag in a place
when something passes away and that is a shame.
if you're infatuated, enamored, pacing
waiting impatient for a relationship status to change
if that is the case and that is your aim:
is an animal great
only once its captured and taken from it's natural state,
sedated, named, packaged and caged,
displayed, placed captive to claim:
"I have it in my habitat I'm happy to say!"
"validate me with valid dating or cast me away!"
it's the trip not the pin drop that informs you
you shouldn't feel bound to bind someone because a bond's true.
most want their own somebody and warm truth,
some want to own anybody, I warn you:
there's a large difference between
"I want you to be happy!" and "to be happy, I want you"

Every dog has its day
I'll be your best friend
when spent with you
the evening's special!
I feel Pavlov trained,
love, I need to listen
when yes, we click
on every level!

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from I've Been Thinking​.​.​., released May 3, 2016
Produced by Tony Mahoney

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