Unguarded

Proverbs, Chapter 5.

I went to see a woman,

 

I’d called her on a phone;

 

I went to see a woman

 

in a tower high above;

 

I went to see a woman

 

for I was alone;

 

I went to see a woman,

 

a simulacrum of love.

 

 

I sat beside this woman,

 

she hadn’t been trafficked;

 

I sat beside this woman,

 

she hadn’t done drugs;

 

I sat beside this woman,

 

she owned her own attic;

 

I sat beside this woman

 

without syphilis or bugs.

 

But as I walk away from her, I’m lonely and forsaken

and as I walk away from her, I know I’ve cheated Love

and in the night I waken and think on what I’ve taken

and oh, my skin does glisten. My enemies stand above.