The Brutality of Deceit

What is love?

The Brutality of Deceit

My hands are caked

in the dried blood

of lost love.

So many brutal endings

that make the Balkans

look like a picnic.

Yet I slit no throats,

stood no innocents

against the cow shed

and punctured their

flesh with lead

from an AK47.

So why am I to pay

for the sins of this war?

 

18/12/14

Author's Note

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

Brutal and angry. Effective in its harshness.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

And I feel every word. Thank you 'M'

[Matching Socks]

Love hurts like nothing else can.
Especially when you've been deceived, I know this feeling and it ripped my guts out when it happened.

Another great song choice. The tears I have cried listening to that song over and over and over and over...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Me and you both Ana although 'Jar of Hearts' took this songs place in my beautiful, though sad, cabinet. Thank you Ana

[Matching Socks]

Another very good song. I've cried to so many songs I've lost count.
Some songs, like some poems , just have that power.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we seem to always be paying for those love wars...we have broken hearts, broken limbs of emotion, we are also often paralyzed in the heart----and our minds and attitude toward love just gets so jaded...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha Jacob you have just spoken the outline of the poem I was penning called Mysophobia! Thank you for your comment!