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Will she accept, will she decline
if I should ask her to be mine?
I’d feel a fool down on one knee
were she to say she won’t have me.

The bolder me says ask, although
if I don’t ask, she can’t say no.
I fear she thinks we’re just for fun
whilst I imagine she’s ‘the one’.

Come the moment, come the doubt:
rejection I can do without.
At heart I’m just a scaredy cat, 
avoiding risk, I’m good at that.

Procrastinating Pete – that’s me.
The single life my destiny.