Date: 18-02-2016
Broken Christmas
That Christmas morning
I lay next to a beautiful stranger
and when he opened his eyes I believed
that there was no other place on Earth I'd be.
But the longer I looked the more I woke up
to the startling truth of all the lies
behind that green fleck of mischief and charm
lay the deceit and ugliness of a smile that disarms.
Maybe if I'd looked harder the first time
I could have seen the truth and run far away
from a dangerous boy with secrets to hide
and a disastrous love that would break me apart.
He destroys me from the inside
with his beautifully woven lies
and I always pretend to believe that it'll get better
as I did again last night.
'It's okay,' I tell myself
'You're not in the wrong
You owe it to yourself
So try to move on.'
But I can't.
I can't take the first step
To rid me of this toxic love
That continues to manifest.
A single smile is all I need
To make me fall again
Into his games
Into his arms.
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Poetry/twenty sixteen : a poetry collection/ A poem, a day. Can't be that hard, right? One of my New Year's Resolutions this year is get back into poetry and explore new styles. This is my attempt at doing just that. This collection will be a mixture of d...
