I'm not interested in selfishness
I want to protect the good ones from this charm
I'm ready to toss aside love for truth
the uncomfortableness made me want to run
away and towards purer better things
the lack of eye contact was intense
and the questions made me nauseous
the lies revealed after
hurt more than anything
the coercion and then the truth
aren't the gifts you think them to be
and though I scrubbed my hands for hours
I couldn't wash it away