Saturday, May 4, 2024

The girl who cried wolf

 

 

Nov. 2, 2013

 

She clearly never meant for this to happen,

For him to get so close as to glimpse the real her

After she’s hidden that self so deep for so long,

In borrowed (perhaps accidentally stolen)

Lives of other people, perhaps deliberately now

Revealing herself for the first time,

Trusting she can trust him, feeling perhaps for the first time

How those who follow her have felt,

Desperate for him to understand her need,

Hampered by the fact she has kept so much

Secrete for so much time, he can’t quite believe

When she is telling him the truth, as opposed to

All that she had said before, like the boy who cried wolf,

Unable to convince anyone about her pain

Since nobody knew who she really is,

Even when she throws open her chest to show

Just how wounded she really is.


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