Stranger Danger

a stranger approaches you
he wants to be your friend
and asks for directions
---
will you let him in?
---
innocently
happily
you tell him
everything he wants to know
---
and he tells you
the way “he wants it to go”
---
time is spent
---
talking
laughing
crying
confessing
nurturing feelings
---
eventually
yet quickly
he tells you he loves you
---
you’re good friends now
---
you tell him you love him too
and become best of friends
---
as time goes on
you see him differently
that he isn’t what he pretends to be
and he doesn’t really care
in fact
he’s a player
with his own game
and he knows your address
and your real name
---
he also feels entitled
to play with you his own way
and being without a conscience
guilt in him doesn’t exist
especially if there’s hell to pay
doing wrong he’ll never admit
---
so rather than apologize
to ease the strife
he makes excuses
then goes on with his life
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so what do you do now?
how can you quietly back out?
or should you scream
and make a scene?
opening yourself up
to even more of his decree
in that he says
“now you belong to me!”
---
rather than setting you free
he won’t let you run
you’re hapless
and he’s pure evil
the devil’s own son
with his grip on your throat
and he will never let it go
---
instead
stronger and tighter
becomes the noose of his hands
as he strangles out your life
if against him you stand
---
so ladies beware
when you’re in the devil’s lair
don’t talk to strangers
or you haven’t got a prayer

©AthenaRose

03/08/13


Author’s note:

This poem is a complete work of fiction, created strictly for my own entertainment, and of course,
anyone else who finds it interesting enough to spend a moment reading it, if there is any similarity to real people,
places, or events it is just coincidental, and is not meant to depict my
reality or anybody else's in any form or fashion.

:slow clap: That was inspiring.

thanks...