You lured me out on a limb

with soft pleas for openness
only to hang me from it
my own feeling
twisted in on itself
to make the noose.

then you whipped me
with your promise
not to care,
and spat at me
shards of my broken promise
not to love.

my body twitched and swayed
in the hot lies
of friendship
while you drank in my sex.

you cut me loose
and then crawled into my bed
stroking my wounds with salty fingers.

you assault me, then insult me, then pull me close.