Friends Are Prisoners of Expectation

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By Peter Rudenko. Performed by Peter Rudenko at the Free Music Archive
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Friends are prisoners of expectation,
Reflected in the mirror of their need.
Instead of being happy on their own,
Each knows that one cannot survive alone,
Nor think unless another plants the seed.
Dependent all for selfhood on relation,
So to be fed, must one the other feed.

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