I find myself roaming the Seven Dials
with the shop staff filling in the greetings
that I never received
from the ones I thought I loved and
those who loved me back.

With those who I barely know
those wishes albeit short
were pure and genuine
those who I held onto, depended on
let me down, yet again
Have I invested in the wrong people?

I am 21 now
and how did it take so long
to realise that this life
is filled with fake friends-
no, acquaintances.