I've never been good with making friends.

As far as I know, people just come and go.

No one really stays like, forever

and I know too damn well that it's all my fault.

There was this cage I never know ever existed

I fooled myself too much with stupid scenarios I thought I'd be able to build into reality

I unconsciously stepped into that cage

One step after another

then the door was closed behind me

There's no turning back

It was really lonely and dark in there

and I never got what I pursued from the start

Yes, the hope did exist

but everytime it lit up my surroundings with a small light of courage

the wind blew it up in a blink of an eye

and I was all alone, again

I forgot what it feels like to have someone to talk to

I forgot what my face looks like when I wore my most sincere smile

And most importantly

I forgot how to love everything other than myself

and, unexpectedly, the cage itself

The cage taught me how to see the world differently

It's nothing sort of beautiful, it said

Not even close

I got what the cage mean

It was just as lonely as I was

It locked me there because it needed someone

Someone to fill it up

As I grew more fond of the cage

the door suddenly opened

It showed everything, everything I've lost after years of being locked up in the cage

It was just a few steps away from me

I could reach it all back with my arms

and the cage said nothing

The cage let me go

I, in the most unexpected way,

fell in love with something that took my world away

I didn't want the freedom anymore

That's what I thought, until I saw you

I thought I had forgotten how to befriend someone

to be fond of someone who doesn't even know you

It was like falling in love in the first sight, but not romantically

I want to feel it again

the feeling of having someone I can call a "friend"

I want to admire you, I want to get to know you

A friendship,

that's all I'll ever ask from you.