I used to have a very dear friend who hated with a staggering intensity
that I couldn’t keep my earphones untangled,
They would go out of their way to detangle it for me with a certain passion,
In return, I would help fix their tangled mess of anxieties to avert a calamity,
And in this process, somehow our thoughts got entangled,
Over time, it went from being a cute exchange to simply a transaction,
I learned not to tangle my earphones when I moved away to the big city,
And my friend, from whom I’ve grown apart, probably learned how to not get tangled
in their thoughts in the very same fashion.