Dear Duplicity

These last few words I write to thee

Are past due to my destiny

I cast this spell so I might see

Contrast within this constancy

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Well, once upon a time did we

Both feel that e-lectricity

When I kissed you and you kissed me

Our flame once burnt wild, bright and free

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You were a lock, and I your key

I came to see that through the storm

The same were we, if but briefly

Akin despite our diff'rent form

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The skins you wore to suit the norm

The girl, the nurse, the loving spouse

Identities became a swarm

The nameless curse of brightest blouse

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A game we played, of cat and mouse

We made a home out of our house

We wrote a tome, a lovely tale

Of love, of loss, and of betray'l

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And in this poem did we set sail

For distant shores beyond the veil

The seas we roam are ways to find

These long lost doors within the mind

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The breeze does blow, the law does bind

This song is sung, the deed is signed

The bell is rung, our time’s run out

A silver tongue need never shout

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From wit has sprung a diff'rent route

A shade made of dubious doubt

A maiden young yet cold of heart

Will often yearn to play her part

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So highly strung right from the start

And so if she should want to rise

She’s forced to learn to ply her art

The art of cloaking truth with lies

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Of cheating with those gorgeous eyes

It’s heating up in here my dear

So fleeting is your loyal guise

Our inferno is growing near

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So quick are you to cut all ties

You’re sick so suddenly of here

You say you must take to the skies

What is it just, that you so fear

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About the dust that’s settled down

The songs that you will never hear

You just can’t trust the magic clown

She longs to be the puppeteer

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To pull the strings that bind the sphere

That animates your daily life

No matter how she might appear

Her signature is always strife

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How skilfully she wields the knife

As webs are spun and stories told

Your fantasy she weaves, your wife

Until you’re drunk on toxic gold

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This siren song is getting old

A shame, for youth, your soul you sold

Aflame we were, so uncontrolled

I wish you’d said you planned to fold

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I would have shifted strategy

Least now I know who’s lost at sea

Ephemeral though you may be

Your name is Dear Duplicity.