He Wasn'T
He was an ugly handsome
In a foreword backwards kinda way
Silent and outspoken
with nothing great to say
Strong with a strange weakness
Secrets he could not keep
He had a sense of humour
that mostly made people weep
You were cursed if you loved him
his hateful ways made you pay
The Devil was his confidant
Yet he still liked to pray
Heartstrings busted and broken
oh the songs that he could play
A companion to your lonely
but somehow it was okay
Happiness bled into sadness
your smiling face he’d make it weep
He was the fox in the hen house
sleeping with the other sheep
On the surface he was so cold
with a penetrating shallow heat
Pulling and pushing deeper
a sour sorta of liquid sweet
You wanted him to stop
He was confused when you said go
Pretending to understand
even though he didn’t know
Whenever he finally left
It was a lonely kinda glad
You prayed for him to be good
Instead he was the best sorta bad
Your memory tried to forget
his familiar foreign ways
Your body craved his approval
So you bathed in his lavish praise..
Copyright © Richard Lamoureux | Year Posted 2017
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