Author's Note:
Have you ever had a relationship with someone that was just this veneer of friendship? You really wanted to have a friendship with them, and be open and go deep about life and have that platonic intimacy...but you realize that to them you were nothing but a joke - someone to do stuff with while they were bored or their more interesting friends were busy. You shared so much with this person, and they used it against you to try and hurt you all while laughing and smiling. It really, really, really hurts. I hope that this poem maybe some sort of catharsis by putting words to a painful situation that it is so hard to find the right words to describe. I hope that it can be healing, and also serve as a reminder to other people and me to treat people with the respect they deserve.
Until Your Next Train - This poem compares me to a train station, not interesting place or a place to stay. It is merely a transitory place. It conveys sadness and the confusion of thinking that the friendship was deeper or longer-lasting. However, it is all one-sided. I will never measure up. I will never meet all of the requirements in order to be considered a worthwhile friend finally. I will not be treated nicely and seen as an equal. The goalpost keeps moving, and in this poem, I cannot move...because I am a building - a train station.
King Hwang Hyunjin invited a painter for her beloved wife. When he falls for the painter instead.
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