Pretense

(album: The Book Of Nabeel - 2022)

In a ditch of darkness
I awoke
Nothing to be seen
Just a word she spoke
All the love she purred
As cute as a kitten
And just like that
I was truly smitten
Beckoning me forwards
I blindly walked it
Ignoring my fears
At which I balked
Faster towards her my heart beat stills
All of my desires she promised to fulfill

Jet black hair
Down her shoulders, streamed
Olive brown eyes with longing gleamed
Arms outstretched
As if with pure intention
To take away my fear with her pretension

Her pretension
Her pretension

Something venomous between us, stood
In a web of deceit
Oh had I only, understood
Her sultry smile tugged me
Ahead
Or to a destiny child
Forever dread
But the arrow that pierced was tipped with poison
Loosed by her hand with a lack of compassion
Invisible to the end
Her meaning now bared
As I realized her heartless soul never cared

Jet black hair
Down her shoulders, streamed
Olive brown eyes with longing gleamed
Arms outstretched
As if with pure intention
To take away my fear with her pretension
Her pretension

Her pretension
Her pretension

A light from a distance
A Shadow revealed
A form dark yet slender
So easily concealed
A motion, a notion
A reflection hard to perceive
An image off murky waters
I dared not concede

Jet black hair
Down her shoulders
Dream
Now her brown eyes were there longing me
Arms outstretched
As if with pure intention
To take away my fear with her pretension
Her pretension

As the life from my body drained
A word from my mouth
Resonated and strained
Why? I gasped with utter
Incomprehension
But ripping my heart out
Was her only intention
Her only pretension

Her pretension
Her pretension