Send in your skeletons, so I can count them bone by bone,
Line them up before me, so I can choose the ones to bury and the ones to shelter,
You’ve piled them in your closet,
Matched them in the band of dry bones,
Where they rejoiced in the glory of your unbecoming,
I see them wilt and limp around,
Murmuring an anthem in protest to your promises,
Since truth is the secret that only a lie can discover,
When the regrets sink in, it’s hard to recover.
Cherry lips coated with venom,
Tongues laced with an armour of chaos
When the eyes just speak rioting metaphors
And the heart,greased with fathoming tasteful lies,
Ones that never chokes but burn on the fingers, like radioactive atoms…
Ever since honesty was declared the best policy,
Lies were made the terms and conditions to apply,
Just like heaven has secrets that hell lie about
So do you.
Cut me open and tell me what you see inside,
Does it blind you or make you see through me?
When my heart pumps,
Won’t you fetch my blood down at the drain as I bleed?
Emptiness is heavy to carry
But not as lies,
Even if they bind,
We’ll just be getting closer to be apart,
In the name of lies
Nobody would die by the truth.
©Teddy Temple