Two-Step

Misguided by forgiveness,
I extol my admonishments
with a bejeweled tongue.
Sharp-witted proverbs
directed by subversive agenda
disguise our discourse
as we pirouette around niceties.
I experience reality
with a dash of disbelief.
Feigned delight
peppers our well manicured exchange
aptly seasoned with melodic undertones.
Only a sophisticated palette
can deconstruct this interchange.
With distant eyes
we engage in this torrid fellowship,
I may be a sucker for love, but I am nobody's fool.

Explained

Forever altered by past events,
shaped by the momentum of my history;
I lose myself
in the thoughts of tomorrow
while I try to escape today.
I offer you the unabridged edition to my heart
and the footnotes of my soul:
Remarkably misunderstood,
a paradigm cloaked in dissonance.
I am a lost lover
with a broken spaceship
just trying to find my way home.

Hush...

I am ensnared by cursed lips,
tormented by life's secret
whose mere breath births destruction.
I struggle to reign my tongue
and subjugate my secret.
Hushed whispers of demise
are confided to my soul
which is already overwhelmed
with its task.
Empty eyes search my depths
not looking for what it wants to find,
justifying its non-existence
with its presupposed absence.
With an abrogative conscience
I begin my lovers soliloquy.