Do not lie to you
About your intentions
About what you want
When your body speaks volumes
With the heat of desire
With the sweetness of kisses
With the tenderness of touch
With your need for me
Do not lie to you
About your intentions
About what you want
When your mind reels
Over past events
Over past relations
Over past failures
Over the intense truth of you-and-me
Do not lie to you
About your intentions
About what you want
When you cannot lie
Despite all your lies
Despite all your claims
Despite all your resistance
Despite my naïve trust in you
Do not lie to me
About your intentions
About what you want
When I, in vulnerability, state deep truths
Give, thoroughly, everything you ask
Give, honestly, everything I want
Give, eventually, all that I am
Give, helplessly, it all to you
Do not lie to me
About your intentions
About what you want
When I can see through
To all your truths
To all your complexities
To all your fears
To all your love
Do not lie to me
When I cherish you
And I am wise enough to understand why you lie
And smart enough to learn what you’re saying
And bold enough to stand behind the truths I find
And in love enough to share their treasures with you
Do not lie to you
Do not lie to me
When it changes nothing of the truth
And nothing of you
And nothing of me
Do not lie
(I love you)
Oceans of Mine 