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my mistakes

let them be erased

I didn’t want you to see

let the lies be shade blinding you from

seeing my misery

keep you from seeing the holes in my soul

highlighting how my pain takes control

I lied because I was ashamed

scared for you to transparently take me in,
I’d be unclaimed

so my cowardice kept me chained

and like my dismayed despairs, I desired to

have you detained

I lied as a way to retain

What I didn’t realize

is that all the lies
fan the flame

as our house of love burned down a faulty,

flustered foundation is all that remained