WHITE LIES
BY AZIA LAYMAN
They say,
Cover the part of yourself
That you don't like in black
So I showered myself in it,
and painted you with white lies.
I became obsessed
By how prefect you were to me
Your shadowless contours,
and your pearly white grin.
Then your trap snapped
My limbs hung from your mouth
My heart hung on a string
You hid me,
Further and further
Into the void.
I watched,
Waited,
Hoped your white light
Might save me
But, you began to unravel.
Thread by thread
Each lie I told myself
Became tainted with truth
Until no longer where you white
But you matched me,
The black hole I became
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