Headstall's Reflections - 64. Chapter 64 Shields Up

Shields Up

You plied me with guilt

And coerced with your plight

Preyed on my compassion

Whispered lies in the night

Broken promises strewn

Left behind devastation

Faint wisps of intentions

False paths to compensation

One-sided you function

To take but not give

Don’t ask for new trust

Your conscience’s a sieve

It’s said no man is an isle

But you acted a continent

Treating love as a game

And this mortal an instrument

As far as I’ve come

The damage still lingers

My soul carries bruises

From your icy cold fingers

Though tables have turned

And you spill out your need

Old pain is a specter

That still makes me bleed

Maybe you’ve learned

Hell, maybe you’ve grown

But my brain stems my heart

I can’t forget what you’ve sown

I don’t like being bitter

And mostly I’m not

But my fear is my shield

Against old love pocked with rot

I thought love forever

And to those words you cling

But I know more about life now

I can detect a false ring

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