Challenge
a liar you chose to love
who in your personal life is an absolute full on liar you choose to love and why?
You Lie
You lie on a bed of it,
your grin fastened to your neck with cheap gauze
and whatever else was on sale;
close, comfortable.
You lie for your little brothers,
for your extremities and
for nothing at all.
You lie because you know I will catch you.
Because you know I already have;
from before your neurons curled
infant fists around the mere whisper of a notion.
You lie,
You confront yourself in the black of a loading laptop
in a third world internet cafe; the heat like a hug.
You lie.
You confess your sins to the screen.
You claim to forgive yourself; in verse like a hug.
You lie about that too.
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