Friends? Again? Poem by Nivedita Patnaik

You ask me to be friends again..
our relations have been dampened...
trust, once breached never is restored...
its knotty-complications is a wound now...
how do I forget the betrayal?
how do I dismiss your complete indifference
how do I erase the hurt from my heart
how do I delete the trauma from my soul
...to be friends again we need to become strangers
we need to start afresh
but its impossible...
so...let it be...
lets be complete strangers....