Is it possible for me to be a friend
to one who has given up on me?
From my point of view
it seems completely possible.
After all, it's common knowledge
that a person can love
someone who doesn't love them,
so doesn't the same apply to being friends?

But from your point of view . . . .
I don't know.
You have other friends.
I know this and understand it.
Whether they are "good friends" to you
– in the way that I understand the phrase –
I have no way of knowing,
no need to know.

But I do know
we were good friends to each other,
and I know
my feeling towards you has not changed.
In my mind I can be a friend to you
even if the feeling is not mutual.

It might help if you would tell me
why you have given up on me.
I don't know if I could understand,
but I would like to have the chance to try.

I have always said you are so good
at describing feelings
of which I have no experience,
so good that I can share emotions
that are unknown to me.
So will you not explain
how this one-sided "unfriendship"
came to be?