You shout and scream Angrily saying words that you don’t mean And in the heat of the moment You’re only looking to burn everything that you see Because you my love, are an Arsonist
You and I are tangled in a web of miscommunication Whereby you speak a different kind of English- A dialect where I hate you translates into I love you And the bruises that you cover me with, Are just secret poems that you leave on my skin
I don’t understand the poems though, For they were poems written in an ancient alphabet; A one that is undecipherable to the rest of the world-
Only because you are the misunderstood lover That is speaking in tongues that no one has heard yet
So I laid there bare as you read them aloud to me All broken souled and on your knees, And I saw the shame in your famished figure While you stuttered and recited your apology.
You always told me that you loved me through a broken telephone, Why? And made me promises that I knew could not be kept, Why? I heard you say that that time, was the last time…
But all that your words are are simply tongue twisters In a perpetual game of Chinese whispers