If I say yes, or if I say no

It won’t matter to you anyhow 

So I’ll say nothing and save my breath 

I’ve got a long way yet to go 

I’ve made many vast mistakes 

But the biggest one I always make

Is lying to myself 

Because then it’s only too easy 

To lie to you

Like falling off a log backwards 

Like water off a duck’s paddle board 

Silver tongues so glibly lie

They bare witness to

The birth of new fictions sprouting up

In the dark like mushrooms

On a lark

You say you

Love me

Prove its true

And next time maybe I will mean it

When I say

I love you, too

-jenn