My Deceit

My Deceit

Don't deprive me of my deceit

for that is what I hide behind,

safe from the truth;

holding back the pain

and assuaging the catholic guilt

that persecutes my earthly soul.

Such torment

does destroy my calm

and true deep self;

my inner tranquillity so disrupted

as to give me shallow faith

and steal my universal hope.

And in the agony of self-inflicted barbs

I strike, true and hard

with ruthless efficiency

at any shadow of doubt.

 

17/07/12