Words That Burned

Your lies sever

Wounded, time
Orates
Redemption’s pleas.
Destitute, your lies
Sever love’s ties.

Tales and rendezvous
Haunt passion’s dance
Alluding
To yesterday’s tryst.

Burning flesh
Underestimates hate’s
Reign. Powerless, I
Now question
Everything you say and
Do.

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