Give Me Love - Not Affection

Your kisses betray me
the way they run away

over little frustrations
within every day

Your tenderness
evaporates
without any grace

It’s so cheap
you give and take it
to fuel simple
ambitions

Yet you love me
without any
qualification

So I say
keep your affection
because it’s worse
than aggression
or controlling
possession

when your wrath
chooses the
absentee path

instead of steady mercy
and direct confrontation