#friendzone
I thought every boy was the same:
Immature and dumb.
And I know there are some,
Some you can’t tame
And others you can.
At first you were just some guy.
I thought of you just the same
But apparently I was blind
Or had a cloudy eye.
You were far from ordinary
If there was one word to describe you
I’d say it’s legendary.
I saw you as a companion
Until it began to feel like something more.
In every crowd I’d look for you
I’d search every room and every door
I’d make sure to scan the floors.
Sure, I’d had crushes before
But none compared to you
My feelings I couldn’t ignore
And so I began to explore.
Love was never an option
Until we met face to face.
I remember when we met
And which place.
And I know we never had a chance
To ignite a passionate romance
And none of us tried to make an advance.
I still think of you
At night, at school
Even while swimming
In my mom’s pool.
But I know we’ll never be more
than friends.
But if we had one chance
I’d ask for a dance.
I still love you
Although not in the same way.
I’ve come to terms with the fact
that my desire for you ran away.
But I can’t think of what we could’ve been
You could’ve been a king
And I, your queen
You could’ve gotten on one knee
And placed on my finger
a ring.
But I hate to dwell on imagination
For it can be a dangerous game
And wherever you are right now
No matter if we’re still friends or strangers
I love you just the same.
And for missing the chance
I feel no guilt
and no shame.
1d ago
Jun 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM UTC
And in my enduring favorite memories i will often be the young man, head over heals for your beauty.
We held eachother at arms length,
I clearly wanted something but want stood less tall than the pedestal I held you upon.
I still can breath in your scent when i close my eyes and relive the summers that you were so close but never mine.
There were times when i was sure it could and would be you and me, we were so close then. But you had made your choice, and i wasn't... it wasn't meant to be.
I swear back then that if only i had recognized your hints for what they really were when you gave them, and invited acted as i fantasized countless times after we parted...
We were... it was... Us. But I hear you are happily married and i cannot imagine a summer like those for me again. But if only.
Love unrealized but amongst my favorite to recall upon.
Mar 29
Mar 29, 2026 at 3:09 AM UTC
she is
glorious --
in that golden-hour
type of way.
it looks like
she was dipped
in the kind of light
that you can't touch,
but admire.
i listen intently
as she talks about
boys
like she's reading it
from a script
that fits her mouth
almost too
easily.
and i sit there,
i smile and nod,
trying not to look
at her lips
when she stops
paying attention to
my eyes.
she says im her favourite,
her safest place,
her soul sister even --
and i say..
"me too."
yet it still aches
like a confession
i can't give
to her.
to anyone, really.
she's glorious.
and i love her
in the quietest form --
the one that
lets her go
every day
without thinking about
telling her
i ever wanted to
stay.
Jun 28, 2025
Jun 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM UTC
we're not friends exactly,
not really --
but
we're not more
than that either.
there's an awkward inbetween.
you laugh at my jokes
like you care,
and sometimes
on the rare occasion
you text first --
which is just enough
to trap yourself
in my head.
whatever we are,
it isn't nothing.
but it's never
been right
to call it
something more.
and maybe
that's the worst part --
not the part
where i lose you,
but the part
where i
never really
have you
to call
mine.
Jun 28, 2025
Jun 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM UTC
I want my birthday to be special
I want to see you, you are my passion
I want your hug, I want your touch
I want to see you on my couch
But your reply is so horrific
Massage appointment, it's terrific
My birthday party will be sad
You are so happy and I'm mad
Mar 30, 2025
Mar 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM UTC
I cried myself to sleep
Saying nobody would ever love me
If only we could be
I wouldn't have to weep
Then my wish came true
But I should've been careful what I asked for
My love life now isn't a bore
But now, I don't know what to do
I've started talking to a new boy
And I told him I didn't love him
And that only made him act grim
Treating me like a toy
And he asked why I wouldn't date him, because he was so great
And I felt guilty because I had asked for love
I had been embracing my freedom, like a pure dove
But that didn't mean I wouldn't date
I just don't want my happiness to be a lack
But the most you are to me is a brother
And my heart belongs to another
Someone that will never love me back.
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM UTC
Hey you
I sat on open trees
The sun in the sky
The birds in the air
With branches and leaves
Blazing rays hid above the trees
Dared not to hurt me
But I cared none
Hey you
I sat alone
With all those laughters
Nothing but conversations
All around me
The birds flew as they sang
Soft breeze brush the skin
Although it gave me music
Silence was all I cared
I kept waiting for a silent melody
To come by, to fill my world,
but it never did
I guess to you, I'm just a friend
Sep 22, 2024
Sep 22, 2024 at 5:48 AM UTC
I'm glad you're my friend
A shoulder to lean
A crutch to stand
A dwelling of respite
And the dawn's first break of light
I hope to give as much as I take
Laugh with you and cherish
To face what comes side by side
To be silent comfortably on those long car rides
I can never be angry at you
No matter my efforts
A smile from you is all it takes
A cure to my recurrent mental aches
In an unfulfilled life, your company is contentful
But
Like a poisonous nightshade blossoms
The fruit of friendship ferments
Forms into an intoxicating sweet wine
Drunk from it, my mind is realigned
I don't want to be friends with you
"Friend" is such an evil word
It brings so much yet restricts all I care for
A false comfort when one longs for more
So perhaps I must go
To some distant desolate escape
To myself, I must be true
I have to save myself from my love for you
I hate that you're my friend
Jun 28, 2022
Jun 28, 2022 at 12:10 PM UTC
Read the palm of my hand,
Analyse the lines and see that it maps a highway with no destination
You became a long highway with high speeds and good music but as the driver, I knew it were to go nowhere
But as the passenger, you anticipated us to go everywhere
And for that I’m sorry
You became a best friend that I resented
And I became the best friend that you had to learn to resent
Long car talks became our lingo and daily messages was our travel snack that we would crunch like a pass time
But as you found another, our cars collided
Inertia was met by fastening seatbelts and an accident we both denied had occurred
And it's not that I’m jealous or realised I love you
But I am now met with suburbia,
With corners and cafe small talk,
Stop signs and round a bouts,
And I am to know that I can no longer rely on you like a country road but instead give way to another
I wish all the best for you
I know you once looked at my hands as a destination for yours
And honestly, sometimes I wish it were
But instead, they are creased maps leading to the nowhere for you
And everywhere for someone else
Although, I really hope you enjoyed the trip home
Jul 9, 2021
Jul 9, 2021 at 7:53 AM UTC
I feel you
I understand you
I like you
but I still don't want
to be with you
Dec 19, 2020
Dec 19, 2020 at 7:24 AM UTC
-
She said she had a lot of baggage
Running from things she's been avoiding
Since a young age
I told her we were in the same boat
I'm also trying to stay afloat
-
Few days later I was her favourite
Late night calls and early texts
Those park dates were best
Surrounded by a crowd but it feel like
It was just the two of us
We would bearly notice the rest
-
I said with you I don't feel alone
And that my feelings for came like a cyclone
Maybe I came in too strong
But I felt weak after she said
I feel like that too
But we should keep it in the friendzone
-
Lowkie ®
Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 at 12:04 AM UTC
I've never told you,
But I've loved you for years.
I know you don't feel the same,
But I always hoped that somehow
You would fall in love with me too.
I never minded waiting
Just being around you was enough,
But these days, you've become so distant
I wonder if you even care at all.
Even when I was drowning in my own darkness,
I answered your calls and listened to every problem you had.
And then, when I needed someone, I reached out to you,
But you ignored every single plea for help.
Now, my heart is slowly dying
And I don't know how to stop it or who to tell.
With its final fading beats it clings to my love for you,
But even that is slowly fading.
And somehow, I feel it's all my fault.
Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020 at 2:11 AM UTC
Does your boyfriend do all these thing that I do for you?
Treat you the way I treat you ?"
It was clear why he was asking,
Everyone wants to look better than their opponent.
Then a moment of silence slipped in,
And a flash back of nothing swept by...
Those were all the memories I had with my boyfriend.
"He probably will also change when he has me,
right now he just wants to be the better man"...
I told myself.
"Of course!
He treats me well...
He even does more than I could ever ask for"... I lie.
If he had paid more attention,
He could have spotted my hesitation.
If he had paid more attention,
He could have known I needed a hug.
He could have notice the cry for help
Behind my smile.
That I wanted him to try harder.
I wanted him to convince me...
So I could know i was worth a fight.
But sadly he backed down,
Turn his back away,
And has never looked.
And I can't run after him.
All am left with is the promise I made to my lover.
And the thought of "what could have been"
Jul 27, 2020
Jul 27, 2020 at 8:59 PM UTC
he met her at a very strange time in his life. no, scratch that. that was basically a quote from fight club.
i.
but frankly, he did meet her at his lowest lows
when he wanted the vortex to **** him in so he could vanish and rest and maybe find peace-
for his girl was gone and left him to fend for himself in this chaotic world, scattering the past, present and future they’ve dreamt of in a hurricane before she did, one that ****** the life out of him
his girl, the girl of his dreams, the girl he dreamt with, the girl he dreamt for, the girl who shattered his dreams gone
ii.
he slowly opens up to her
and she slowly gets to know him
well mostly, his love story left to die with its tragic ending, another tale of an unrequited- now one sided- love
she doesn’t really mind for she’s known pain and misery,
known them enough to last almost half of her lifetime
she knows how having them as company turns living into the art of merely breathing
and so she refuses to take flight from this almost stranger who, because of the way circumstances have rolled she’s stuck with
misery loves company doesn’t it?
iii.
he has turned her into his shoulder to cry on
changes taking toll with time’s passing,
yet their connection remains constant,
their unexpected friendship unfazed
two people with the same wavelength, gliding with the same frequency,
relatively similar to soulmates
and they could end up together in the snap of a finger, voila
as easy as how random they picked up
but nothing easy is ever worth having
and try as they, she might,
it seems like it can’t be
iv.
she’s always there for him
she’s seen him cry, beat himself up enough times
she’s aware that he could be quite a handful
perhaps ignoring his constant “i need you’s”
and “please don’t give up on me’s”
and evaporating one day into the air and blocking his number would be the best option;
letting go could be her salvation
before she chooses drowning over keeping her head up for one particular boy-
she’s the one consistently found on his side
she’s the one with the 2am jokes when the world decides to act as his shadow
and the one with the random spur of the moment topics that never fail to amuse him
v.
sometimes he’s left wanting to lose the remaining sliver of hope he has for humans
so he makes her out to be just like everybody else
on those occasions when he wants nothing more than bottles of ice cold whiskey and packs of cigarettes from dawn to the late night hours, to cease existence
he expects her to appear and announce her leaving
and he’s left with this internal satisfaction all the time when she lets down his morbid expectation that she’s given up on him
she remains on her place in his life
vi.
but maybe she’ll never be the girl
even if she’s always with him,
always nagging him to get out of bed
and live this ******* up thing disguised as life
even when she becomes this bright light trying so hardly to outshine her darkness and his darkness
even when she manages to see the good in him
even after she lets out her “i’m here for you’s”
and “i won’t leave you’s”
and “i got you’s”
she’s still not the girl
there’ll always be this wall,
barricading the distance
no matter how little between them
all the while the lines get blurrier
vii.
she confuses him enough for him to get a grip
and even feel in the state of denial he’s locked in,
really looking through her remains his failure
even after it all, majority of her is still invisible
somehow she’s still a stranger,
just strangers who because of their own messed up loneliness,
bared their souls out to each other
and their needs and attachment
get in the way too soon blinding them,
thinking it could be something more,
something it’s not
viii.
strangers.
maybe that’s all they’re meant for
Jul 16, 2020
Jul 16, 2020 at 11:25 AM UTC
You were my ever-after,
but I failed to exist to you.
Mar 25, 2020
Mar 25, 2020 at 3:00 AM UTC
You told me yourself that “little things to you matter”
Being around you I’ve unconsciously adapted that feeling when it comes to you.
You say these things and the side of my brain that usually never gets what it wants is being feed.
Building emotions on the words you say
Building emotions on originally empty words
You don’t do drugs but you parade it around an addict .
You are very aware I’m trying to dispose of my feelings for you.
Seeing you the way you see me
But you make it difficult every time you call out with “psst”
I don’t want to lose you, that is one awful big mistake.
I hope you get past your shyness and let me in
Or maybe... maybe you are just afraid you might lose me when you really open up on how you really feel.
I really wish you’ll stop playing games even when deep down I feel you enjoy it.
So talk to me or make my coping mechanism easy for me
Pal
♚
Kunbi_dia
Feb 24, 2020
Feb 24, 2020 at 4:27 AM UTC
Maybe I should stop talking to him
He friendzoned me
He clearly told me that he doesn't wanna be anything more than just friends
But maybe there is hope
But maybe I am wrong
Maybe I am annoying him
Maybe he is just too polite to tell me that
But why is he so nice...but yet so mean
I feel sorry for him
I don't even know why
My eyes are filled with tears
My heart is filled with pain
But my mind
My mind is filled with anger
And I wanna make him sorry for his words:
You mean a lot to me, but i would rather see that we just stay friends.
Dec 28, 2019
Dec 28, 2019 at 5:54 PM UTC
I catch myself thinking about you
A lot
But we are just friends
Aren't we
You probably don't think about me as much as I do
But that's fine
We are just friends
And you probably don't care about me as much as you care for your schoolmate
We are just friends
But why does it hurt when I catch you talk to her
When I see how happy you are when she is near
But we are just friends
Even if I wanna be something more
Dec 28, 2019
Dec 28, 2019 at 5:44 PM UTC
You are kind
You are sweet
You are caring
You are gentle
You are loving
You are caring
Any girl would be lucky to have you
But you're not 'him'
Dec 23, 2019
Dec 23, 2019 at 3:22 PM UTC