The poem opens with a single question, "Can we be friends again?", and the speaker spends the rest of it wrestling with that question. The word "Again" sits alone on its own line, as if the speaker has been through this before and feels the weight of repeating it.
What comes through most is fear. The speaker asks question after question: how do you stay friends with someone who once broke your heart, and how do you stop yourself from falling back in love when you still see the side of them you loved? Almost nothing here is answered. The speaker only admits, "I want to" be capable of friendship, and then says plainly, "I don't want a broken heart."
The mood is anxious and uncertain, a bit raw. The short lines and repeated "How are you supposed to" make it feel like thoughts circling in someone's head. The last line, "Can you fight love for a person you already loved?", leaves the speaker, and the reader, without an answer.