lunch

eating lunch with a friend

chewing slowly on cafeteria food

while she talks about our latest project.

all i want to do

is sit in the library and type

but the library is closed

so she drags me to the bleachers in the gym

and i can't escape her.

i'm not exactly an introvert,

and if you get me going

i'll talk for hours.

but i just don't want

to be around her,

because when i am,

i feel lonely,

because to her,

everything i do is trash

and yet she calls herself my friend

because unlike me,

she has the crushing desire to

never be alone.

whereas i am the opposite,

always wishing for solitude.

i guess opposites attract,

but now i just wish i could

switch myself around

and repel away from her

magnetic field.