Dear White Lies I was told as a child, though you came from the mouths of people I trusted the most, still I was betrayed by you. You came in the form of “I love you,” and “you’ll be okay,” and “I’ll never leave.” You were sharper than a knife and you twisted at my heart until finally it bled out onto a paper that would never be read by anyone else but you and I. I trashed a note that would make more of you enter into my brain and grow until finally you looked down upon me as if I were nothing more than a bug compared to you.