Fury Of Secrecy

This poem has an angrier edge than most of my writing. Truth is its probably more about disappointment than anger, and we know we are only disappointed when we have expectaions of others. Lessons learned

Never shocked really,
just slapped by the suddenness and
the fury of your secrecy;
By your willingness to crawl across all good sense
to enter into a tunnel of deception with no thought of consequence.

Love will always elude you, and what a shame.
It will sit on your back burner undervalued,
Lost in the game
to the hand that holds the aces of pleasure.

The surreptitious slime of your lies seeps in the sunlight,
the sticky substance that holds the wall together;
the one you began building between us
from the very beginning with every nail of deceit, that ooze
Again drips down the face of the facade of your happiness,
and exposes your naked dishonesty.

Don’t offer me the cold hand of excuse and explanation,
Or a limp handshake of feeble I’m sorrys,
Or worst of all your famous outright denial
while the taste of the evidence still lies on your forked tongue....
I’ve been through too much in this sad regard
to be willing to invest anything at all in caring.

Crawl wherever you will
blooding the knees of your soul
with the hardened scales of lies.

Author's Note

I can accept just about any truth about someone but I abhor secrecy, lying and deception. And the reason is because it negates what the relationship was predicated upon...what we think is true is not and we find we were laboring under a delusion. Its not that hard to accept someone who accepts themselves and is true to themselves but when they lie about who they really are, what you have accepted isn't really them, and both people are lost in the fog of deception, without clarity, without truth.

Reviews

[Your Tasty Field Adviso..]

i hate liars. this poem, i can relate to quite well. i dont like people who lie, but yet it seems that people do that unknowledgeable deed to me all the time. great work.

[Wordcrafter]

Always so powerfully honest, your sentiment... and I missed reading you and the beautiful way you word your anger.

[Poetic Injustice]

Excellent work. Though I must say my honesty has cost me as much as anything. But that's another story (and I refuse to change my nature. I live with myself).

[Pointblank]

OMG! This goes into my faves and one day maybe if he is lucky I will share word for word exactly how I feel so perfectly put in words by your honor. Thank You! Perfectly said. Love it. Love it.

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Oh...my.

[Antonionioni]

Great descriptions that lie somewhere between reality and analogy, full of simile and metaphor. Very enjoyably written, ome of the most powerful I've read of yours. Also, I agree with your comments above - except that I suppose the other way to look at it is, if the truth HAD been known, you might not have accepted it at all in the first place. Just one of the many dilemmas of life which you have focused on here excellently!