A.M.S. Poem by bob barci

How can I make you understand?
We can't stage our friendship
like it was a Looney Tunes cartoon.
It can't be all fun and games.
You want too many promises
that I just can't keep to make it so.
You have to take it seriously now and then.
You've told me not to mind your ways,
now it's your turn not to mind mine.
More often than not, there are times
when I just don't want to act like a kid.
I've passed that stage awhile back.
And if I just don't talk for days on end,
you'll just have to bear with me,
because whenever I try to explain my feelings to you,
you just poke fun and make things worse.
How can I make you understand?
We all have our annoying ways.
I have mine, and you have yours.
We have to understand each other's ways
and try to bear with them.
Once this understanding is obtained,
a fun and games vision can be real,
if that's what we want at that time.
But at this stage in the game,
we're in two different worlds and so far apart.
It will take some doing
to bring it all together.
We've had enough laughter together so far,
that I feel safe in letting you know,
that before we find out where our friendship lies,
we'll go through a bit of Hell,
and then we'll see
what it has been all about.



dedicated to Ali-Mohammed Sehat