Liar
I always admired the lake-leaves
weightless, almost, with
lilies of pure white resting
atop the water, as if they had only
truths to tell.
I wish I could drown beneath them,
the light burning holes in my
spine, through the cracks in the green,
purifying me, making me new.
How my tongue drilled into the dust and
my skin willed a lie.
I couldn’t stop the bleeding this time, though.
I carved a hole in the dirt and poured
myself into it, the earth wrapping
around me
like soft palms comforting.
The dust falls upon the skin of my thighs like dew
on the wings of the first pale moth of morning.
And my heart sighs knowing that I cannot simply
fly away, that I cannot dig my way out, and
that I am the one who put me here.
About this poem
This poem was published in Rose State College's annual literary journal, Pegasus, 2017.
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Written on 2017
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 821 |
Words | 148 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
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