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This next poem isn't really a poem so much as it is a song. With a lot of my poetry, my words and experiences influence the work, but they don't reflect the final product accurately. In other words, the poem reflects feelings, but not actual occurances. Basically, not all of my poetry is based on fact so much as a feeling that I ran with. Running with the feeling that I had as the inspiration of this work, this was the final product. Hope you all enjoy.

Sweet nothings that I told you
Please, they were so clichéd
All the shit that you put me through
I can’t remember why I stayed

Looking back there’s something I’m missing
An answer to a question
You thought of me when you were kissing
But was I there when you fucked him

I cared to stay (I can’t remember why)
We thought this way (it’s just a lie)
Would be the best for us (for one another)
But we had no trust (in each other)

We only lied to each other
To save ourselves from being alone
All the fights were too much to weather
Hours of silence on the phone

That speaks to me (it’s screaming now)
Of misery (can you tell me how)
We lost our way (gone forever)
We had to stay (and now we’re stronger)

I miss the way you held my hand
I can’t make you understand
We never wanted one another
We just wanted to hold each other

I kept you far from me (kept deep inside)
Didn’t want you to see (feelings I had to hide)
I’m not the perfect guy (I wanted you to stay)
That was the lie (that pushed you away)

I appreciate the irony
That we felt the same
Now I feel it’s plain to see
That we’re both to blame

This is goodbye (I’ll always care for you)
Don’t let me see you cry (you’ve go no reason to)
We were looking out for one another
It turned out we hurt each other.

Anthony C, "Lies Kept Us Together (and tore us apart)"