I lied

Posted on December 18, 2021 by ceayr
artwork by phil burns

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I lied

I lied to you
the first time we met
to protect myself
because my heart was imprisoned
wretchedly
far across the sea
and I found you
dangerously attractive

I lied to you
when we met again
to protect myself
because my heart was shattered
brutally
from across the sea
and I found you
painfully attractive

and then
we met yesterday
and I was free
to speak the truth
and I found you
excitingly attractive
but you were with him
hand in hand
and so once again
I lied to you

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About ceayr

A Scot who has discovered peace in a small town he calls Medville on the Côte Vermeille, C.E. Ayr has spent a large part of his life in the West of Scotland and a large part elsewhere. His first job was selling programmes at his local football club and he has since tried 73 other career paths, the longest being in IT, with varying degrees of success. He is somewhat nomadic, fairly irresponsible and, according to his darling daughter, a bit random. So, nobody’s perfect.
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6 Responses to I lied

  1. trishsplace's avatar trishsplace says:
    December 20, 2021 at 2:03 pm

    Beautiful.

    Reply
  2. jenne49's avatar jenne49 says:
    December 18, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    A beautifully and sensitively expressed insight into our human condition.
    Life, eh?

    Reply
  3. Terveen Gill's avatar Terveen Gill says:
    December 18, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    So sad. How we stop ourselves because of various reasons only to be let down by a change of fate. Touching. 🙂

    Reply

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