The game is over
and the winner won by
default but at what cost
as your lies gave you away
and maybe you will learn someday
that you can run
from your past but not very fast
because it will always
catch up with you.

All of your "friends"
know which way
the wind blows but
you still find a need to keep up
your "Holier than thou"
attitude  because you are so sure
that you are better than
everybody else.

Sooner or later that attitude
will sneak up behind
you and bite you on the *** because
you are as transparent as glass
and everyone knows
what you are made of as
you try to make them
think you are a
shining star.

You didn't play by the rules
but neither did I
but at least I didn't lie when
I said "I love you."

I knew the whole time that
your love wasn't true
and realized that you were full of lies
but with a past like yours
I could understand the need for lies
so I just waited for the truth to finally emerge.

At the beginning you gave me hope
and a reason to carry on
and escape those demons of war
that I carried around like
some clown.

As time passed by and we both
kept lying a lie I realized
that I would have been better off
to take a direct hit from
an incoming mortar round than have
to recycle all of the hate and anger
that you freed me of when
we first met.

Upon our meeting
you broke through to me
and made me come alive but then
you made me feel dead upon my discovering
our two years was just a big lie.

But you felt you had to win
so I played dumb
and let you think that
you had won.

Eyes so pure yet so hollow
but their innocence would whisper
in my ear sweet promises of a tomorrow
but tomorrow is here
and you are gone without ever once
saying so long nor did you make
a sound.

Not a whisper nor hark but
you should know
that I no longer miss you
in the dark because the game is over
and you lost ( by default).                                 Jon York              2012