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What's worse than finding out you've been lied to - tricked?


 

The Stranger

She knew she wasn't the
first shy girl conned beneath
a scintillant moon.

Why do boys lie so 
- inveigling fabrications
- hoping to impress?

Why interlace fibs,
when, from first sight, she had longed
for his carnal lips?

Now doubts danced - as if
evil spirits were called and
asked to watch, and gloat.

"I can't talk to you 
again," she said, "after all
- you’re a stranger."

She doubted he cared
- she doubted everything, like
she had a soiled heart.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Gondolf Avatar
December 10, 2020 at 6:49 AM
Boys lie to get what they want, that's as old as life itself. I wrote a poem on the same subject "Shrewdly Played Charades". On the other side of the coin, girls "use what they have" to get what they want. I wrote a poem about that as well "Like a Game of Chess". Hope your week has been good. John
Vionet Avatar
December 10, 2020 at 7:24 AM
I liked "Like a Game of Chess" the best - the guy in "Shrewdly Played Charades" was just RUDE =p
Vionet Avatar
December 10, 2020 at 7:12 AM
ooo! Thanks, I check those out!
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