Lies

I thought I didn't care;

But it turned out that I care too

much, that I didn't even notice I was

already hurt.

I expected nothing, and I realized I

expected everyone to give me

everything.

I tried to believe the perjured

truth---

to escape the melancholic holler

of sorrow in reality.

I fiddled with happiness and

hoaxed my state of mind.

I played with the swindled

personality of my combined

conscience and ego.

I gave up and liberated my chained

feelings;

I freed myself from the shackles of

mendacity and lived in TRUTH.

-S.Reyes