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Breakfast For Dinner

 I should have known. The signs were clear enough. And how I managed to ignore them still remains a mystery. For once I listened to my heart instead of my head and I was definitely not prepared for the devastating consequences that followed. 

 I thought we were headed somewhere beautiful. A place where nothing else mattered. A place were we could savour the sweet and precious feeling of having each other.

Alas, my journey into this mysterious love plain was doomed and it ended before it even started. My fault actually. 

Still new to the business, I painfully misconstrued every single thing. Her smiles I interpreted as acceptance. Laughter as deep affection. Holding of hands as a sign of better things to come. 

Apparently, the better things didn't come. I became an innocent victim of deception. Initially, nothing weird at first. Just little excuses which seemed reasonable at first. However, it soon became glaring that she'd transformed into something else. Something so frightening that I could barely recognize.

Exasperated, I tried to call her to order. Demanding explanations for her actions. But her menacing utterance told me my dreams had been shattered. The frigid cruelty together with the sheer naivety of her lame words left me shattered in many pieces.

And from time to time, I still hear those damned words: "Testimony, you are a nice guy really. But I don't have time for love." 

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