Kaylah Derry Poet Free verse

Maybe I Should Be the Liar

Maybe
I should be a liar
To spare and to coddle

To take away all sense of 
Purpose and truth
Maybe I should

Become the person
With the too wide smile
And the lifeless eye
The fated crinkle of cheeks

Maybe someday the truth 
Will come
And climb aboard
To fly close to the sun

Maybe then I would fall and 
Crash and burn
Or maybe even
Take the chance to learn

Maybe I am the Iceberg
The fated foil
Or maybe I know all too well
How bad things will go

If I just let go
Then maybe I can be
The truth
That sets you free

Maybe I could soar
With wings that
Touch the very tops
Of the trees

Maybe I could
But I will not

Because the truth is 
The snake
The venom is your trust
So I’ll become the liar
The villain in your tale
I tell you exactly
What you want to hear 
With perfume in my spells

I will sit and play the part
And be the perfect belle
For the only thing that sets apart
The story from the tell

I can be the liar and I will 
Fare quite well
Because even when the
Trust was there 
My lips spoke a farewell

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