You Lied

Locked in your arms under twilights star filled sky
You whispered I love you as you pulled me close.
I felt secure and safe in your arms, ours was a love that would never die.
How was I to know that it was all based on a lie.

You said you loved me.
You lied.

I walked around for months secure in a love that was not real.
You were my everything.
Then one day I saw you.
Kissing her when you should have been kissing me.
I had just lost everything.

You said you loved me.
You lied.

I yelled
You yelled
She cried.
You made lame attempts to comfort me and to tell me it wasn't what I thought.
I thought I had seen you kissing her.
I guess I was wrong.

You said you loved me.
You lied.

We can all still be friends you told me.
Are you my friend?
Is she?
I think not.
My FRIENDS would not rip my heart out and dance on it.

You said you loved me.
You lied.

I know you will be back.
She can't possibly love you the way I do.
When you do come back
I will still want you, but I will say that I don't
You see my FRIEND
I can lie too.

You said you loved me.
You lied.

I have put my love for you away.
Away in a box.
I have put that box into a place where it can only gather dust.
As more and more dust settles my love for fades just a little.
One day I will stumble onto that box.
Maybe I'll open it. Maybe I won't.
Of course I will. You know I will.
When I do open that box
I will find that for I feel
NOTHING.
You said you loved me.
You lied.

Shay Kuntz
July 23, 1996
For Bobby and Kari; You both suck.

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