Cheating.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

in some ways we are cheats.
do not deny that,
for it is a fact,

in some ways, we do not tell the truth
when it hurts the one we so much
love, we keep on residing inside the houses of
our own
illusions, not to dislodge the one that we care
that we want to stay
in the places of our longings,

in some ways, we are cheap,
we love the wrong part, we admire the wrong person,
we marry what others think
does not deserve us,

in some ways, we are hardheaded
we go where death waits
we negate what the good life offers,

with all honesty, we make our own lies,
we confess, we are wrong and we are
wronged in return

in some ways, we never really understand
life, death,
and those that still lie in between
we miscalculate the distance
we suffer, we notice,
we regret

but in all these, we must admit,
we want to be honest, but we just can't...