DECEPTIVELY LOVELY

Precious little lies
Somehow they come between
You and I
In our distance

Swaying from one side
To another side
Under the deception
Truth is splayed open

Dropping in and out
A lifetime of easily flowing
Bits and pieces of something
No longer genuine
Sadness never slipping away

Spilling from the lips
Of the one so deceptively lovely
Covering what rots inside
With a veil of societal beauty

Slipping away from reality
It came so easily, yet harder
For along the way
Never knowing who you are
From day to day

Wondering what will become
Left only indifference in your place
Giving up on games so long ago
Growing beyond the façade of beauty
Seeing into the empty soul of a shell

No more hell
No more disheartened promises
Kept only on a whim
From the dawn of distant shadows