You are a criminal.
I wonder why
or how
I could have seen something in you.

I stare blindly
at your face behind the prison bars.
My thoughts racing through my head.
Your eyes scan my face.
Searching, hoping.
Looking for mercy. For pity. For sympathy.
For forgiveness.
But you will find none. Not now.
Not ever.

You beg me to forget.
To move on.To release you
From your prison.
But you are a criminal
And I cannot.

You are a criminal.
And you will pay the price
In this lowly dungeon.
Alone and deserted.
With only me
To look back on our past and see
Your previous, long gone innocence.

To many oblivious others
You are free and innocent.
You are free from your crime to them.
But with me you shall remain.
Behind those prison bars.

For you have made me afraid.
To expose my treasure to another stranger.
For fear.
That he too will end up
Like you.
A criminal.