#selfdeceit
Days bolstered by comforts
The time ticks by
Covered by ceiling not sky
DENY DENY
Our ears are plugged
We deflect and justify
Unquestionable choices
“They don’t concern you, only I”
These islands of lives
But rainforests cause storms at sea
Loose lips sink ships, Freudian slips
“Your choices do concern me”
Though I am only human with inherent fallibility
I just want us, to be free.
Feb 14, 2022
Feb 14, 2022 at 5:46 PM UTC
I use make-believe
overwriting memory
it brings me some peace
The fiction I’ve weaved
you’re at the store - you wouldn’t leave
is a fool’s relief
So I take mine neat
sweet ****** of self-deceit
my strange trick or treat
Oct 22, 2021
Oct 22, 2021 at 10:17 PM UTC
I can see it
in the double-pane
people wear themselves
on their back
their shirts are tighter
than their skin
turkey guys raise their fan
more proudly than Mr. Peacock
.....with bound hands
.....they parade in the smell
.....of their dry-windy gut bacteria
.....and they let homeless people live
.....on the wet coins
.....from the old fountain of love
and I see myself
joining in to keep what I have
my dear self on my back
because I love my sweet
deceit
Feb 13, 2019
Feb 13, 2019 at 2:52 AM UTC