Lamenting deception




“They say just follow your heart but what if it lies...”

- Paul Colman Trio \ Run




How could you, oh how could you?

I ask you why and why?

You answer not. Unfeeling.

You’re meant to be my guidance,

Yet you betray, deceive and lie.

Only from you my troubles are.

I want to say “I hate you”.

I do, I do, and I do!



Why do you, oh why do you

Keep on tormenting me?

I can’t bear any longer

The agony of this…

This misery of turning

From God, my saving force.

You guide me from

My Father.

How could it be,

Oh heart?



Oh, torment, this is torment!

I cannot live like this!

Enticed into such sweetness

Yet treachery awaits

Beyond the shadows there.

There were no saint should venture

You pull me there so gently.

You are a liar, heart;

A clever one at that!



How could you so deceive me?

Why should you, tell me, why?



How could I follow you now,

When you’re no longer true?

My enemy you are now,

The one that is within.



So villainous a torment

Why should it be endured?

Oh, yes I do, I know it

To be aware of you

And of your tricks upon me.

I find no will to stand firm

Upon the ground of truth;

You lure me into shadows

Of doubtful enterprises.

I follow you. Oh blindness!

How could you blind me so?

My weakness is my blindness

At moments of enticement.



Please, tell me, heart,

Do you regret it

Even a little if at all?

Do you feel sorry for the soul

That you deceive to be in sin?

At least could be repentant,

Please, tell me, are you such?



How could you, oh how could you?

Are you pitying or pleased

For bringing my destruction?



Please say that you regret.



Prompt: Write a poem addressed to some part of your body. Be sure that the poem displays a strong feeling and a consistent attitude. In other words, do you want to curse, bless, question, invoke this part of your body?



What do you say for an honest poem?