California Woman Is Red-Lighted, Badgered and Humiliated for 3 Hours at a West Bank Checkpoint

This is an extraordinary first person narrative of an American woman's 2005 ordeal while traveling in the west Bank:
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/11/held-at-einab-junction-inside-israels-new-terminals--when-i-first-the-west-bank-in-2003-checkpoints-were-controlled-by--you.html#more

'Not Allowed'

Well dear, it's come to this:
before beginning, and without a kiss,
our affair (that really wasn't) ends,
and we are still ....Just friends.

So, by my will a yearning bends
till I have made of me... a friend,
and clothed in friendship's proper dress,
I take my place among the rest

-the chums, acquaintances, and such-
with you so close! --but not to touch,
I know this longing's not allowed
from one more friend among the crowd,
so I conform, I am not proud,

still yearnings speak, though not aloud.

-jorge999

NOTE:
the above is an 'achey-breaky heart' poem,
written some years ago in the throes of
an unrequited crush. (blush)