When I pulled the knife
out of my chest
I wondered
How I never saw it coming
How you could be stabbing me
over and over
And I thought
We were connecting so well
Could it be
The liar in me
Saw the liar in you
and it was jealous
Jealous of the way
You set your falsehoods free
Jealous of the carelessness
you kept
for all the different versions
of yourself
My little liar
always punished
And yours
crawling about
in daylight
opening its mouth
and taking all the things you wanted
and never earned.
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