False Faces

Oil on canvas
 Couplets and stanzas
 To divine who you are
 Pencil portrayals and
 Jealous betrayals
 Get you further afar.
 False faces and
 Meaningless chases
 I travel alone
 First places and
 Calendar races
 I need a home.
 Hostile hotel walls
 Footfalls and phone calls
 And you're on the line
 Gentle coercions and
 Bitter desertions
 When the truth is a lie.
 False faces and
 Meaningless chases
 I travel alone
 First places and
 Calendar races
 I need a home.
 Lover twice yearly
 That last battle nearly
 Cost me the fight.
 Broke through the ice
 And got cut down
 to size
 And escaped
 through the night.
 False faces and
 Meaningless chases
 I travel alone
 First places and
 Calendar races
 I need a home.