You Kept Saying That I Lied Poem by Edmund Calleja

(We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love,
first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Albert Camus)

All my love I gave to you
And I’ve have never left your side,
But not a kiss you would allow
As you’re saying that I lied.

When you saw me with your sister
I was just saying goodbye,
Haven’t I told you enough
You’re the one for whom I’d die?

When you called at home to see me
And they told you I’m outside,
Just because I was not there
You kept saying that I lied.

I had mentioned the exam and
Had told you I meant to study,
But as I needed some fresh air
I went out to meet my buddy.

Your friend said that she had seen me
With somebody in the park,
She could not tell who it was
Since she saw us in the dark.

And now you come and ask me
What the hell had I been doing,
Was it really that your buddy
In the dark whom you were wooing.?

And I knew a storm was brewing
As I sensed you’d say I’d lied,
I forgot what I had told you
All I know is then you cried.

Than your sister came to hug you
And admitted we had lied,
But you said you won’t forgive us
Much as ever you’d have tried.

(One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should
never marry. Oscar Wilde)

24th July 19-