Burnt!

Just as there are burner phones,
devices for staying in touch with others
that are meant to be used for only one job,
so there burner relationships
where one or both parties
seeks to make the other disposable
to them without appearing to do so.

I was in one such relationship
unawares that who I thought of
as 'my friend' wanted rid of me,
whist appearing to be pleasant.

For twenty years we knew each other,
where we disagreed and agreed by turns
until one crucial day he visited me
and did not ring back after the visit,
or message me, ever again. 

I know how much we are capable of being
double minded, where we think one thing
say something contrary to it, and then act
contrary to how we have spoken. 

However much I accept that,
I still don't understand
what prompted him act that way,
that last day, and never darkening my life again.