I WILL MAKE A CONFESSION…

Some time ago I went to a private club
with a girlfriend who was a member..
a male friend there had drank too much.

(He was married)
he had come alone;
she asked if he could stay
at my house..
well he was drunk so I let him
have my bed and slept what
hours were left on the sofa and then
saw he was shaking and frightened
when I got up for work

I had to call his friend to
come get him as he was
having palpatations
He didnt know me or
where he was.

He wasn’t an old man I think
he woke up
saw a skull sculpture on my bookcase,
a deck of Tarot cards and numerous
books on the occult and got a scare..I
used to read cards.

I was terrified at work ..
Of course that my fellow
workers would think he had the attack from
passionate lovemaking..
so I couldnt have the comfort of my peers.

I heard he never drank again.

–Barbara Hilal