I would like to say you shame me with your lies
but I am shamed for believing them
for indulging you and your promises like a lost little child.

Sometimes I find shame in being a woman
of loving my body, my brains, and my beauty and in feeling the need to share
I am shamed with words like slut, whore, skank - three things of which I am not.

One day I will learn to turn ear to your lies
One day I will lift off the shame I feel for things so natural
until then indulge, befriend, whore myself I shall.
- call when I am needed.