This is a post of two poems in one POST. First one is "Lies" the second, "Fake." I hope you enjoy them both.
"LIES"
‘Well I love you.’
What a waste.
‘I love you and good-bye.’
How do those two things
escape your mouth in one sentence?
Do they even coincide?
I don’t get it.
I don’t get you.
You said you were happy.
You said you felt alive.
You said you’d been searching all your life.
Well you found it.
You admitted to that.
You found it,
all that you’d been looking for.
But you threw me away.
I don’t get it.
I don’t get you.
Why aren’t you strong enough?
It’s your decision to be weak.
Why aren’t you brave enough?
It’s your choice to be cowardly.
You said you were happy.
You said you felt alive.
You said you’d been searching all your life,
and you found it.
But obviously love isn’t enough.
Obviously I am not enough.
Cause you traded it all in,
The smiles, the laughter,
the late nights we loved,
the grand plans we made.
You threw it all away.
Traded it in for tears,
and loneliness.
For some fake person,
you believe yourself to be.
some new fake relationship,
You believe will replace me.
and you believe you will be happy…
Are you convinced yet,
or do you need to tell yourself again?
Cause you had it.
You admitted to that.
You had it,
all that you’d been looking for,
and you threw me away.
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"FAKE"
One foot in the door,
I'm ready to run,
but halt!
Halted by
the other foot outside.
I've gotten ahead of myself,
and now I'm split.
Inhabiting two worlds,
two dimensions,
of this present situation
and I preach.
Condemnation,
emancipation.
Bubbling beneath,
this lucid layer,
of letters.
F is for foolish,
A is for anxious,
K is for killing me,
and E is for every word,
I just won't say.
And every day
that slips away.
Unannounced and undisplayed.
With one foot in the door.
Yet farther away than ever before
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