You Were The Lie

"You Were The Lie"

You were the lie

     I allowed my heart

     to believe.

And Like an animal,

     you brutally tore it to shreds.

But like a human,

     you left the pieces there to rot.

Taking what you needed

and

Leaving the rest

like

A carcass to the vultures.

You left me vulnerable to them

     as the scavengers

     had their feast,

Picking me clean.

How could you leave me like this...

     you never even looked back

          as I reached out so desperately,

Slobbering on myself

          as I sobbed these painful tears,

     gasping for air

in between every agonizing breath,

You left,

     and

I stayed,

     feeling like only 

I cared.

I find myself now

     lonely

     in other's embraces,

          letting my body

          be used

          as I search desperately

          for the same thing we had.

Me and You.

How could you leave me so broken...

     so open to the sting of memory,

     so afraid of the lonely silence.

I barely recognize

myself now

     in the wake of this carnage.

I miss me more than I miss you.

You were

     in the end

     just another wolf

with much better ways to hide

     than I ever knew.

-Armando Torres