For Most Folks Deception Is Poem by r james sterzinger

for most folks deception
is a pitch-black
dark tunnel
which is curiously
filled with angry words
from a heated argument
with pain that sizzles from
a knife stuck in the back
that reaches through
to the heart.


deception for me is
yellow
hot yellow and white
it burns like
a thousand suns
and blinds everything
i see
and it knows
it just seems to know
everyone of my sins laid out
like money on a dresser
like clothes before school
like a loved one who rests comfortably
in bed
while i am up all night
with insomnia
not being able to sleep
or nurse away this pain
by any means necessary
to dull the edge.