October 15, 2008

The Office Beauty

I see you, beauty incarnate; flowing brown hair, a quick smile, and a sharp tongue. Dark eyes stare at me as you smile and greet me. Speaking words of encouragement to me you coax me into speaking. Your eyes alight as I tell you what you want to know. I am enraptured by your easy grace, and confidence.
You move around me brushing me as you pass, placing a hand on my arm and a smile on your face as you say “pardon me”. O how easily you dismiss me when others speak. The loss is like that of a needle prick. Then you turn and your radiant attention is back on me, your entertainment.
You speak to me as if I am an idiot, dumb to your moves, but I am not. I know you. Beautifully sleek like a snake, using coyness and the lies of pleasure in your eyes to lure me to open up and feed your need to feel wanted. I know this game all too well, but I enjoy this game, I know who I am, I know what you are. I am no idiot who thinks your smiles are real, or that your touch is anything but a lie. I will win this game. I have the advantage of a life filled with empty love, and dead promises. I know you, but you do not know me my love. I will feed you what you need, and fill your void with empty promises so tempting you can not say no to me. I will learn your weaknesses and use your secrets as a pry bare against you. I will play your game and lay your soul bare. In the end you will lay before me naked for my pleasure, and my fulfillment. I will take all that I have poured into you, and more, and when I am done I will leave you exposed to the world, empty and alone.
I will not do this because I hate you, but because I love you, I do love you, even if only for the minutes we are together, I love you, and I will destroy the lies that you hide behind. I will cut them from your soul till you are filled with the truth, the truth that underneath your beauty, you are just as ugly as me.

1 comment:

mom said...

Interesting...insightful. A good piece.