Unconventional Deception

Week 33

like a moth to a flame,
but the flame's just a light,
deceived by this place,
most days and some nights

It's not how they tell you, 'beware of the others',
no, it's different in my life,
and we'll never recover

a 'no' means a 'yes',
or a 'maybe' means 'later',
the message unclear,
I'm confusion's translator

~ P

Unconventional Deception:

A fib made as a placeholder
Given to create a delay
For when I'm a little bolder
And it's the truth that I can say

Meant as such to create no harm
Yet it has prioritised I
Left as social mines to disarm
Risk with every moralised lie

~ J