How your smile entices! How your eyes beguile!
In your warm diversions I find solace for awhile.
But in the aftermath of pleasure, in the fading glow,
I look into the mirror and question what I know.
I say the words “I love you” but in my heart’s a void -
a emptiness ignored amidst the pleasure I’ve enjoyed.
Each imitation phrase I speak expands a growing chasm.
The dishonesty haunts my mind like a cold phantasm.
In the bright beginning we saw passion as a seed
now we use it's vibrant flower to hide our desperate need
to touch and to be touched at our very core.
Will we settle for reflections or will we risk for more?
As you gaze into the mirror, what is it that you view?
A fraud that's just pretending or is it really you?
The question haunting me is who’s deceiving who?
Author notes
coz•en•ing: To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive.
Prompt: "Deception is sitting across the table from us"
Picture credit: http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/prettyme1234.jpg
A contest entry
- "Deception is sitting across the table from us" by carmel apple.
380 points, ended March 25, 2008, 13 entries
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Comments
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Wonderful
Very creative and well done. Best of luck in the contest.
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The words "I love you" were never heard in my house as a child, when I heard them as an adult, they seemed empty and given too freely and lost their meaning. There is always that doubt
and your poem has reflected those feelings exactly.
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Thank you for your comment and your reaction... I'm sorry and for what it's worth... I care as one human to another.
Ken
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