Will others see me like you did?
Will this be the price of fame?
I do not like who I see now –
Will all of me remain the same?
I fear it isn’t so, never was;
And I do not think it will be –
Even you lied, eventually,
Taking away the best of me.
I wish I had power to be
A man with complete security;
No one to depend on or love:
A replete identity.
Yet, if you lied about your love,
Then your thoughts on me are false, too;
Ergo, I am not incomplete,
Despite the part I gave to you.
Life goes on and I have begun to smile –
That smile even fools me for a while.
For a moment, I forget I am lost –
I forget what that smile really cost.
For many people love and want me still,
In the future, there will be more who will.
But, now the smile may linger on my face;
Though it is not true; it is some grace.
It knows how quick most love tends to forget
And the smile hardens quickly with regret.
Family looks on, as public, and knows
That smile long forsook what it shows.
But it’ll linger (tears aren’t well met by all
So, in dark, they will continue to fall).
In light, the smile sparkles on Instagram
And pretends, my dear, to not give a damn.
I’m Back
Where intimacy was a lie,
Where promises are broken,
Where love will always deny,
Where cruel words are spoken,
Where memories bring only pain,
Where hope lived but does not now,
Where hunger comes to rule again,
Where strangers ask who and why and how,
Where words, like forever, fail,
Where letters of feelings are burnt,
Where rosy cheeks grow cold and pale,
Where lessons of sorrow are learnt,
Where holding hands and drying tears
Are forgotten by unhappy hearts,
Where loving looks become fears
Where from all that mattered departs.
Hearts Still Care 
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