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# Simple Truths
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/simple-truths/
- Published: 2021-12-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: there's relatives and dear old friends the kind on whom your life depends there's classmates and coworkers and stars of great tearjerkers but let me tell you this, dear human when it comes to a man and woman the man...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

there's relatives and dear old friends  
the kind on whom your life depends  
there's classmates and coworkers  
and stars of great tearjerkers  
but let me tell you this, dear human  
when it comes to a man and woman  
the man, at least, is not platonic  
unless of course he's catatonic

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2794675-Platonic-love.