Part-time Friend

Trusted you like no other
     Why is it, all you were, was
Part-time friend, sometime lover,
     In the end, another spoiled child?

Built discreet hidden castles where we’d always meet
     Garden sanctuaries where our secrets might be
You entered opened gate, made yourself quite at home
     Then proceeded to rape me on our bedroom floor.

          How could you think I would even enjoy that?

     You said it was love it had to be true .
How could anyone else be like me when with you?
          Was that just a pat on the head, some
Sweet bribe for your naïve, little toy,
          To keep me blind, mute for your pleasure?
Do you really believe I’m as dumb as you thought?
     You assumed three small words would satisfy…

Once wasn’t enough; you pushed harder and harder
     Now, I feel I was being laughed at all along
Listening to scratches of your worn song, skipping beats
     Every time you’d sing me sad refrain how you cared.

          You cared for as long as it took you to come.

You love?  If I were drowning face up
     Alone, on the street
Swimming in slow-cooling crimson pool
     Would you stop to help?