PHASES Vol. 2 [Poems By Shaun Alvar]

Paid Love

She needed love
Unloved in a loving marriage
She's lonely in a life filled with family and friends
All that natural love she shoved aside
Cause she'd rather pay for it now

She wants that paid love
That paid love
Talking to a man
With a fake profile pic
Consumed with desire for words of affection and dick pics
Fed with false idealisations of what it's like to truly be loved
In return, he gets paid

At first, the fee is small
A couple of hundred
A couple thousand
Soon it's hundreds and thousands
She's afraid to lose this love
She has too much invested in this for all of it to go away
So she continues the payments

Bit by bit, her life savings is gone
Bit by bit, she borrows money from friends
Giving them false promises of ever returning the money
She wants that paid love
That paid love
Talking to a man
With a fake profile pic
Consumed with desire for words of affection and dick pics
Fed with false idealisations of what it's like to truly be loved
In return, the fake man gets paid

One day, the man stops replying
Cause she's too easy that it's getting boring
She wanted that paid love
And in return, she was robbed
Robbed of her marriage
Robbed of her friends
Robbed of all her money
Robbed of a life
Robbed of true love
All because she thought she wanted that paid love