IF BY FRIEND

To thine own self be true!
.........
We have climbed to a mountain top together
And I will not descend.
.........
If by "friend"
You intend
That we shall speak as tho`
All our words of yesterday
Were never spoken...
If by "friend"
You intend
To obliterate the reality of the past
(Tho' it was but a dream)
What each of us has felt...
If by "friend"
You intend
That romance is dead forever
An we
Shall never lovers be...
Then I must give my answer true
And most emphatic!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!