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Between Truths and Lies

Let's just,

pretend that we know there is a difference

     between our diamond truths and our slip of the tongue white lies

Our feigned porcelain skin we stitch to perfect ourselves

     begins to grow brittle, contorted by a breath of acid (truth or lie.)

Lies,

they've decide they love you "till death do you part"

     they can lurk within every awkward silence, so they can whittle their deceit

They wait behind doors, keep themselves hidden between cracks

     striking with their nails, they crawl towards light from under streets

Truths,

they will forever burn and scald our perfect and phony milk skins

     they tease our tongues, melt and scorch our falsely laden lips

Trickling onto chins like thickly fraught syrup made of gore

     they try to keep us from sharing, never will they let secrets slip (small or large)

Lies,

with an amiable but devilish grin they nip, splintering pounds of flesh

     they have eyes that visualize the world as a rotten corpse that needs a bite

They catch their nails upon our spines, digging in, pressuring pain until

     they can sneak into our pores, to feed their mirrored deceit into our kind

Truths,

always have their ways of keeping us "honest" to the gut wrenching core

      They fold our eyes inside one another, blinding us from reality and what really is

Crisp, kind ,and clean, they keep us frozen to how others may 'truly' feel

     they are making us diamonds and ice, frosting over the human beating heart (the both are painful)

Itty bitty,

little white lies, will always be living, alive with the holes of truth

     these truths, will still leave a faint trace of acid upon our tongues  

So, shall we continue on our journey, and pretend there's still a difference

     between our truth's and lies?

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Written by
kendal-anne
American
Published
Apr 17, 2013
Lines·Words
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Lies, are hurtful, but yet, so is the truth.

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