Are you the new person drawn toward me? ~ Walt Whitman

Are you the new person drawn toward me?

To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;

Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?

Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?

Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?

Do you think I am trusty and faithful?

Do you see no further than this facade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?

Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?

Have you no though, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

~"Are you the new person drawn toward me?" - Walt Whitman

"I am surely far different from what you suppose" It speaks of the  expectations people have of each other, the opinions formed even without any words ever having been exchanged.  Reality is rarely in line with perception, especially in regards to people. Things are not always as they seem. "Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?" This poem is a warning, "Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?" the narrator is asking if the person thinks it will be easy, and without effort on their part. Essentially trying to find out whether the persons' intentions are purely selfish or not.