The Gorgeous Lie

I beg to be frank

Beg to be honest and vulgar

Beg for truth to be a sun bleached carcass

That I gobble after careful circle

Like a long starved vulture

Beg to be told

Beg to not go wondering

Alas I find falsehood lurking

It’s lies and pleasantries numbering


You can give it to me pretty

Give it to me stainless

Promise that promise land

Where even pain is painless

But when the punch comes for my nose

And I spew blood on my laces

I’ll know you’re just a fresh mirage

Come to corrupt my homeostasis


I’ll be the stiff, pale, gutless worm

Ready for picking one day yonder

Come get me fresh, only if you confess

Or you’ll just have to push

Famish longer


Because I ask for gospel

Let me hear you sing

Appease my growling purity

Don’t you stutter, whisper or mutter

I want gut pour that roars with surety


Perhaps you’ve untreasured some hidden filth

Or learnt how to cure the ill

Maybe it’s benign, it’s a heart maintainer

But don’t come tell me

With it wrapped in ribbons

Like the gorgeous lie’s a no brainer.



by Lyric Deep.

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