Entertainment

I've been here before

Listened to your feet crunch the shards of glass and shattered hearts

Wiping the remnants of liquor and bitterness from liar's lips

As your night of sugarcoated revelry comes to an end 

The facade falls

Cracks

Echoing with the slam of a shotglass that pulses through ears

And thumps through my brain with your sneer of rejection

Your eyes don't shy from mine

But they are discolored with arrogance

Hardened by vanity

As cold and empty as the bottle that sweats against my palm

If I close my own

I could reach for a memory of the past

For a sunbeam's reflection highlighting the contours of your skin

Or the childish purity in unquestioned belief

But tonight, they will stay locked 

I will watch the candied venom drip from your curling lips, drawing me back under a veil of falsity

And see us for what we really are

I am no longer the same.

I won't be your entertainment

Your distraction

Your pastime or plaything

The show is over.

I've been here before 

But this is the last time I'll come back.