By Heart

I knew her answer by heart,
To the question I had not asked.
Yet she had never said those words to me.

Like a refrain in my head,
Whose lyrics echo all day long,
This is a chorus I could do without.

These simple words speak of doom
To the intentions of my heart.
Some things, I think, are better left unsaid.

When I finally asked her,
"Do you think that we could be more?"
She smiled as she answered, "just a friend."