It had happened before:
This callous exploit.
Sequence adrift and
perhaps an ending too swift,
but I'd seen it before.

A previous morn was
woke with shudder and
sweat before with reason
I met and could curl again
toward that lusted retreat.

Not so on this
not-so-innocent wake.
It was real and all too true
What's done is done.
The devil within had come.