The Hamlet Project

Ask and you shall receive
Except when you shan’t.
Mostly people say this as they’re giving you something you were just asking for.
It’s almost always a small joke
One that lives in the tiny coincidence of itself.
Sometimes it’s hard to ask.
Sometimes because you’ve asked a million times over and not received
Sometimes because you couldn’t confess to what you truly wanted
Because you hope that she will read your mind
Because sometimes it feels like she can
But years of asking and asking wears a man down
Til he does not ask
And he does not receive.