Do Not Tell Me Tales

Do Not Tell Me Tales

Do not tell me tales
Tales of your tongue-in-cheek fables.

Do not tell tales
Tales of your pedestrian fancies.

Do not tell me tales
Tales of your veiled carnalities.

Do not tell me tales
Tales of your hallucinatory wet dreams.

Do not tell me tales
Tales of your vain passions
Passions that will blur my visions.

Do not tell me tales
Tales of the wandering daughters of lust
Daughters of lust who are already lost.

Do not tell me tales
Tales of your so-called love for me
The love that even my spirit cannot even see.

Do not tell me tales
Tales of your idle gossips
Gossips of your scarlet lips.

Do not tell me tales
Tales of your serpentine lies
For as the serpent lies, so she dies.

May 28, 2001.