TRUE LIES

Now, I know some of us love our lies,

We embrace it like a priced cloak, 

That covers our filth.

We cherish it like a beautiful wrap cladding our nudity.

 We would rather protect our lies; believe it, till we become it.

We live it and almost forget they are what they are "lies". 

No matter how beautiful we make them look.

No matter how gorgeous we decorate this lies,

They can't erase our truth.

As you know, some of us live our truth,

We display it like clear water.

Streamed through rocks, gushed from pressure,

Watered from fresh dew, cooled at morn.

Though, our flaws may taint our beauty,

Refine our perfection. Yet, it's this un-smoothened patch,

 That tells who we are.

 No matter how hard it is to tell,

 It’s the bravery we live that never would herald a lie.

MIND WAR

My rage is in my silence

My anger is in my calm

I am so vexed, I've become voiceless,

Numb, calm and unable to spit the fire in me

I'm furious at the many folly foiled to make me feeble

I refuse to war with my mind

Even when you continually pillage my body

Rummage my emotions and toil with my feelings.

I refuse to let you take up space in the very center of me,

 where I lord my spirit and command my soul

For each time you gorge my corpse of its purity, I take back control of my maturity

For every trash spoken to chop my cadaver of its essence, rid my flesh of its esteem, I choose to raise my soul to the untouchable realm

You my darling can't touch me, not with coal words, with the fury of hell burning and spitting pain and shame

Not even with your icy stare like a frozen curse, forgotten without spell

I live in my mind, this body; you try to conquer, was built with love and passion, and consumed when the gods woke gay.

This flesh you detest with disdain, was birthed with the finest of memory, sweetest of care and strongest affection the world will I ever bare.

My body lives in this free mind only love has a compass to