Lies of Omission

You don’t recall

it happened that way?

I’ll never prove a single thing?

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Your doe-eyed stares and

dish cleaning frenzy

means one word

if they mean anything

Y E S

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You can play word games

dance with the

deviling details

in the dwindling

lexicographical light

no combination

of sounds, marks, or phrases

no semantics lecture

can ever erase the

sound of my voice

or the truth's searing light

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Why is it

you try so insistently

to stir my fair-earned wrath?

toying with the bend of

morning light

bouncing off my memory gaps

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You know

if I were to let loose

this all consuming blaze

you would be stricken

from the ephemeral record

your sketchy outline

smudged into

a hazy line of carbon

on a blank sheet

crispy white

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Words

the only ammo

in the time-worn leather pouch

girding my hip

my only protection

the weapon defending

my flesh and my faith

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Now you request

an assisted

suicide

try to fall on my sword

in an attempt to escape

the repercussions of your

wicked state

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I will not indulge

I cannot abide

such obvious

attention seeking cries

the same worthless observers

who ignored the

horror before their eyes

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I won’t stand by

watch you continue to

hide your lies

behind this guise of

mortally wounded

mother hen

when you’re a

gerbil at best

eating your offspring

squirming, alive

K.B. Silver