Deceptions

I don’t know how it happened
I thought I would love you forever
I guess I was wrong

The way you treated me
Made it easier for me
To make this decision

I never realized
That you had been lying to me
For several years

Always wanting to believe you
Although everything you said
Was untrue

You told me you loved me
Was that true?
Or was it one of your deceptions?

You told me once
That you wanted to spend
The rest of your life with me

Then three weeks later
You abandoned me
For no apparent reason

What was the reason?
Once again, your deceptions
Came into play

Every time I asked you
You gave me a different reason
Never the same one twice

But this time
It was my decision
Not yours

The decision to move on
Was an easy one to make
Since I saw through your lies

I never thought
I would get over you this easily
But you made it easy for me

You said we could work everything out
That one day we would reunite
And share our lives with each other

You never gave me any indication
Of this being true
Only more lies

What did you hope to accomplish?
Your lies will catch up to you
I will feel sorry for you when they do

You lie to your friends, too
Will they still be your friends
When they find out?

If they see through your untruths
Will they abandon you
As you have abandoned me?

Or are they the same as you
Spreading false stories
To feel better about themselves?

I realize now
That I am much better off without you
I am a lot happier

None of your lies
No one treating me like property
No one to tell me what to do

You have no place in my life now
The emotional scars you inflicted upon me
Have healed rather quickly

Never again
Do I have to put up
With your lies

But I hope, for your sake
That you do not do the same thing
To anyone else

They may not react
The same way that I did
And you may be the one getting hurt

And if anyone else does to you
The things that you did to me
You may not handle it as well

You need to change your ways
Before someone else gets hurt
And that someone will eventually be you

And when someone treats you
As you have treated me
You will receive no sympathy from me

Your deceptions
Will catch up to you
I hope I get to see it when it happens.

©2001, by Jaymie Knight
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