Fake Advertising – Three Line Tales

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It was a deal of her lifetime, 
the one she wished not to refuse; 
selling off her soul to the advertising "devil" 
in hopes of "fake-positive" reviews.

Deceiving and defrauding society
was now closely associated with her name;
conning, swindling the innocents, 
she became the best at the infamous fraud game.

Life comes with it's own terms and conditions, 
alas, she'd forgotten;
all that glitters is not always gold, 
sometimes the offer expires and treaties are broken!

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Invisible Lover – In Other Words

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Desiring your consideration,
I have cried a million tears.

"Invisible" to your complacency,
I have died a million deaths.

Inconspicuous indulgence!

Your nearsightedness annihilates me, 
I can no longer take this any more.

I wonder how can you be so unseeing
 and my love be so obscure?
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Bitter Echos

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In the crinkled chapters of my past,
I sometimes unearth my solicitude,
Tangled in the cobwebs of reflection,
I reason my perennial solitude.

Reminiscing the diabolic chapters of my yore,
In grief I trudge through my present being,
Incapable of bypassing history,
I am stuck in an unceasing cycle of self-pitying.

With severed intrepidity I subsist,
My "amour-propre" is in shambles,
Awaiting emancipation,
I wait on cadavers of all lost battles.

This sorrowfulness is beyond my fortitude,
The suffering I can take no more,
The memories of my slaughtered past mauls me,
I yearn for this turmoil to cure!
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