Rough intimacy

ROUGH INTIMACY

Soft creaking stairs
Pre-amble to betrayal

abandoning tender understanding
for hard-core love
with post coital cigarettes optional

leaving behind her shattered body
that once received his coarse caress

but real love
lay in her bed
he would wrap himself around her
post betrayal
kiss her neck tenderly
as if he might
jump start her long dead desire

she silent
a shell
aware
of his search
for rough intimacy

yet he stayed
sheltered her
calmed the storm that
raged within her

she could never tell him
that she understood his need
for pain
for release
for rough intimacy