Tag Archives: Lie
Spilled
Misplaced since forever
I, being still the optimist
Will nevertheless forthwith only choose asterisks
Use lower case letters and mocking-fingers-in-the-air quotation marks
But know my lips, crowned and reaching upward
Outside smiling, inside snarling
Speaking in only opposites
Shall never say so in earnest
Data Points
Sitting nicely in her exam room
Obligatory questions asked of me
And didn’t I have to lie
Leave the crying out loud for the inside?
For, one’s home is her castle
One’s heart is the treasure
Her smile, sacred
Didn’t I have to lie
I, her patient patient
actual bird
little nest
little magpie
little by little
Fall then Fly
big fear
big when-why
bigger and bigger
Leave the Lie
workman
i count the Lies
discarded so effortlessly
They float like feathers
from Your lips
and are my bible
i count the Zeros
carved painstakingly
They scar like stains
on my skin
and are Your poiēma
Sorry No Metaphors
I wanted what we said
Let me be honest
More than what we’d made
Our bed as traitors
I wanted to live in a way
Let truth to have its day
More than to make others happy
Our shiny, tidy lie
The Pedestal & The Pit
Is it wrong
I choose
To not see
The truths
My heart can't bear
To choose
To see
Is it wrong
I fight
To see
The might
Imbued somewhere in you
You choose
To not see
2014: A Haiku
Not denied my eyes
Told my heart to go to hell
That’s what I’d have done
I Lied
The battle is twofold
And feels insurmountable
Truth comes from the North
And appears as the enemy
Illness attacks at Dawn
And the signal is giv’n
At these intersections, I must choose
And I conclude, I’ll live to fight
Befriend the enemy
And let it slay hope at Dawn
Second-Story Windows
I’m explaining
Away
The shimmering leaves
The gust that inspired them
The light they danced with
The grace with which they fell
They’ve
Nothing
To
Do with you
At
All
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