If friend and lover were one and the same <br />successively, who then could say what spoils <br />belong to either left by the other’s claim? <br />Til then the matter through definitions toils. <br /> <br />My lover cannot violate my space. <br />A friend is limited to close approach. <br />A lover is more careful what she says. <br />On friendship jealousy can only poach. <br /> <br />My lover’s my possession, I am hers. <br />My friends become their friends crossbred at will. <br />I may have any number, none the worse. <br />We share all things but lovers mutual. <br /> <br />Does anybody suffer from confusion <br />which is a friend and which immortal fusion?<br /><br />Edward Wright Haile<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zz-319-if-friends-and-lovers/
