Waking

In the still dark early morning hours.

I lay in my warm bed,

Snuggled under clean sheets and  comforter

And watch the parade of your lies

Pass in front of my eyes

As I loved you beyond limit and reason.

Why? Oh why?

What good was ever going to come of the lies?

One piled on the other.

Unnecessary.  Specious.

People crushed, hearts and souls

Scattered in pieces across the landscape.

Is that piece mine?  Maybe that one is hers.

I can’t tell them apart.

I see you in the distance

The child in the riverboat

Caught in the whirlpool

Of the lies.

No one to save you.

You left us bleeding on the shore,

Still searching for the pieces.

Three lives

Forever changed.

Shattered

By the lies.

I want to go back to sleep

In the silent darkness

And forget

How I loved you

In the face of your lies.

Grateful for daybreak

chasing the dark parade away.