Lie To Love You

"someone's always payin' for that banter baby"

The next statement is true,
    the previous statement is false

Are we friends?

  Can we maybe at least be....
     dear loving enemies'?

Very intimately
    I can see you
Quite intricately
    Like you never will
Without us in concert

 we might be that special thing
   You simply can never admit 

that thing

You always need...

but can't admit

that thing

   we can't see 

not just yet

But I know

 because they told me

That it's not supposed to be pretty
       Until you admit that we're ugly

And then,

  and only then       We'll find beauty.

    across distances unimagined 

across distances we can't fathom 

Across a distance we have no reason to cross

Author's Note

Reviews

[poison&kerosene]

This has a very simple and melancholy tone to it. It makes the reader's heart feel heavy with longing. Well done!