I must have liked you

As I paid for us at Kew.

 

 

We spent some hours

Among exotic flowers,

And strolled in glass houses

Where respectable spouses

Walked too.

 

I bought

A room in a cheap hotel

Off Victoria Street

Where assorted lovers meet

Then depart

And no hearts are left

Bereft.

 

We dropped off the key

At reception

Saying we would be back …

I wonder, did they have any  perception

Of us two …

 

It was just an hour

Or so

In a cheap hotel

Long ago.

 

 

But I must have liked you

For I paid for you at Kew.