What Lies Between Us

by John Marrs

‘A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.’

This might come as news to you but despite everything, despite the cruelty, the selfishness and the pain you have caused, I still found a way to care.

There is just one lesson I have learned from the life we share. And it is this: everything that is wrong with me is wrong with you too. We are one and the same. When I die, your flame will also extinguish.

can’t imagine what it must be like to have to ‘untell’ people. I don’t think you can ever be normal again after losing something you were so looking forward to loving.

My world has caved in on itself and I’m buried under the rubble. All I know is that I must continue to breathe under its weight