Faces Can Lie

Faces

Can

Lie.

Liars

Won't

sleep.

Sleep

for the

Night.

Nightmares will last.

Last

in

their

eyes.

Eyes

barely

open.

Open

your

heart.

Heartless, You smile.

Smile

for the

world.

World does not care.

Careful,

beware!

Where

are you now? Now all is lost.

Lost with no cause.

Cause there's no truth

Truth is a joke.

Joke is on you.

You chose to play.

Players will cheat.

Cheaters feel pain.

Pain you must face.

Faces Can Lie.

(Now take a step back, scroll up, and blur your eyes....and read)

Reviews

[Josh W.]

Nice stream of conciousness. Very raw. Very direct. The formatting is a bit of theatrics that I always appreciate.

[TheLostMind]

Amazing. Especially the last stanza -
"Lost with no cause.
Cause there's no truth
Truth is a joke.
Joke is on you.
You chose to play.
Players will cheat.
Cheaters feel pain.
Pain you must face." - this is (unfortunately) true. This is how life works. Good one :)

[Lily Sage]

Very creative! I liked the part on Truth being a joke and the Joke is on you. Good piece

[Rachael Lea]

very creative, misphit's idea on reading it backwards was interesting too. I tried that and was in agreement with her. I never would have thought to do that... Not with this poem I have tried it with another one of your poems but didn't get very far with it. I like the lies you created with the words as well I noticed it before I read that line. I usually step back when a poem seems to be shaped to see what it may say.

I like the line where you speak of truth... My favorite term to talk about, truth is an illusion as it is and that is captured with this poem.
Overall I like it.

[Misphit]

So I did something unique with this piece and after reading it top to bottom, I read it from the bottom to the top...Something about blurring my eyes is enticing because normal gets boring after awhile. I like your grey area and reading it backwards just makes me want to befriend the betrayer. Your use of a particular word to introduce the next line is creative and I'm a sucker for random thoughts...

[J.A]

WOW! I never thought of reading this backwards. I just tried it. Nice.
As for blurring the eyes, I didn't think people would catch it right away. But I formatted the poem in a way where if you blur your eyes, the entire poem spells "LIES!" lol