We meet roommates sharing the same space, <br />With complete strangers a new friendship begin, <br />Trying hard to hide their moderate taste, <br />Eating together and barley wearing nothing. <br /> <br />Without whispering insult or villainous speaking, <br />roommates overwhelm at first, <br />Want to know every move the other is making, <br />To get along and developed a thirst. <br /> <br />Pride gather the need to make acquaintance, <br />more questions are ask than answers are given, <br />Applied wisdom to appease the listening silence, <br />And avoid heated squabbles hemorrhaging. <br /> <br />Drawn boundaries in relationship communicate, <br />The privacy of understanding manner, <br />to change behavior and get along with a roommate, <br />is an achievement of social power <br /> <br />Respecting the other when friends cannot be found, <br />and share laughter sprawled out in dorms, <br />Tensions are driven to grudge the outer bounds, <br />Leaving roommate reading elementary forms.<br /><br />Gerry Legister<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/roommates-2/
