You told me things I didn't know I wanted to hear
and inadvertently diverted my ear,
converted compliments to conversation
then swooped in under my radar;
performed acts of kindness, I couldn't detect,
these performances I didn't expect
were a setup for something I would regret.
I'm not happy or necessarily upset,

but how was I supposed to decipher
clues that you wipe out and smother?
You were always clever, could have never
resisted your tenure, never ever
would I assume it would be better
to have severed you from my heart
like a never ending bloody river.
Were we ever friends, or only lovers?

It's pronounced like a vowel, but rhetorical,
you a ninja beast or, just as invisible;
though at first irresistible now
only irreversible; a curse and precursor
for the complicated, now really simple;
Put away that dimple, it's a symbol
for all the lies and your evil.
Not a question, the answer; it was never real.

08/24/2014

Posted on 08/25/2014
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