llusion

06 Nov 2018

alisajs
lingering shadows of what you decried as love
continue to beat about me, unmercilessly
leading me to realize
it was never what I foolishly received
so desperately
like some drunken two-bit fool
caught on a doorstep
with fingers stuck inside some broken wine key

I tried ,
to make sense of nonsense
of those years that faded and eventually died
savagely struggling to stay alive,
all while hanging on to hope against hope
and by default, the lie.

that what we had was actually real.

and now, in the quiet of this desolate sky
screams the truths I dared not
cared not, 
to believe
and refused to release for the longest spell

telling myself it couldn't be
as dark as this austere reality,
these words that slice 
across what I thought was continuous indefinitely

never real,
never mind ...

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