Guilty

[RhymeLovingWriter]

Guilty

dropped your name today
when asked how I knew about it

didn’t give anything away beyond
a doubt but wanted you to know

in case some nut comes sniffing
around for reasons unknown

there’s probably nothing to
worry about

right?

no way I'd
hang you out to dry like that

even if you never told me why
we couldn't ever go back again

it's not like you were backed
into a corner with no escape

just wished I'd have known before

that we could never go back again


©RhymeLovingWriter 2016

[MHenry]

Intriguing write, RLW, it seems to be in two parts. Something you said, perhaps indiscreetly and are warning the victim, and something that went on between you and the victim, or were you the victim? You=whoever the protagonist might be.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

Heck, I don't know MHenry. The words just keep coming so I write them down! Actually, you are right on the money - as usual. I'd originally ended the poem at 'right?' - but that felt incomplete. So in my mind I was imagining a (relatively innocent) partner in crime, who found out too late that he/she had been an unwitting accomplice.