I was just another girl
To hang off your shoulder
And parade through the streets of same such couples
Overly protective, as with all things yours
You held me tightly, afraid to let go
You told me all the things I wanted to hear
Anything to keep me near you
To keep me from drifting away in the wind
As I had once drifted to you
The lost bit of dandelion fluff that I was
You dressed me in the finest clothes
Adorned me with the finest jewels
Told me all the things you had told so many girls before
To make me love you, to make me want you
But unlike them, I can see through your lies
Interpret your truths
Read you like the open book you truly are
To the literate few
And yet I hung on to you
Because when you looked at me so
And touched my hand thus
I knew something you did not
You thought you told me nothingness
Like all the girls before
you said you loved me,
and a truer lie had never been heard

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