Secrets and lies

Eating away into your being

So many unsaid words become a curse upon your very soul

Your heart is a dying beast

It trembles in agony but mostly heaves its last sighs

It's time to bury it all

Like one of the many carcasses of your past selves

Laid one upon the other

Ghosts of loves and lovers

Stacked in a haunting memoir of dusty books

Poetry is a sham for cowards

Hiding behind flowery words 

Your filth and blood and broken promises

Forever held against you

But if you die tonight who would shed a tear

Drink up my love for the night is still young 

Fools go jumping off the ledge while you sit and smile your sardonic smile never living your truth

No wonder you avoid mirrors these days


#reverie


From the archives, 2021

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