When I was so much younger
I tried to date girls
and they would tell me
can't we be just friends.
Oh, course being a boy
with no friends
male or female,
I took just friends
as a slap in the face.
Just friends I wondered
but what does that mean?
I thought just friends
must mean the lowest
of friendship.
I pondered the meaning
for many years
until I began
to understand
the meaning of friendship.
What I had began
to understand was that
just friends is not a dishonor
but the way they took me
as someone they just didn't
want boyfriend to mean.
I had a choice
and they had a choice
but I had limited friendship.
As I began to understand friendship
and all that it could mean;
I found it meant different things
to different people.
What two people can call friendship
can be defined by the two people involved.
Just friends is really a honor.
