For What You Did

Your naivete was touching

So much more so

because it was genuine

You believed in the faith

you saw in my smile

Never once noticing 

that it didn't reach my eyes

You handed me your strings

Content to be manipulated

You swayed to the whim of my fingers

How easily you forgot

that one swipe of a knife

and you would fall

An inanimate cluster of limbs

You foolishly trusted in my goodness

No, not goodness

I was not that simple

What was it then?

My honour? My nobility?

Or far more than all that?

Did you choose to believe in that

which many before you have?

Seeing what I show you

Asking for no more

Believing that I am all I claim to be

Believing that what I claim to be is all I am

I gave you enough

Even, I'll admit, more than anyone else

For you were more than the others

Intriguing, I don't normally notice

Far less feel this way

I may even have started to believe

In the reflection of me I saw in your eyes

Afraid to admit that I liked it better

Than what I had seen in any other

Enough. A fleeting second's weakness

No matter, this ends now

I'm letting the strings go

Goodbye, thanks for playing

A game that in retrospect

Should never have been begun

This isn't fair

You weren't supposed to be special

It wasn't supposed to leave

a simmering feeling of choking betrayal

And this unexpected emotion

Pain.