True Colors

True Colors

By Tallen Swartbooi

You look at me like I owed you some sort of validation...

Validation?... No... all your words were just some sort of manipulation.

All your misconceptions...

Drove you to your incorrect deflection...

Have you ever seen your one true reflection?

I was wondering when you would show your true colors...

Oh, I know about your past lovers...

You thought you could hide those safely under the covers...

I won't say I'm shocked because I'm not...

Or maybe I'm just doing it for the plot...

The truth can be a lot.

It's starting to get a little hot, is it not?...

There's a knife in my hand...

Don't worry... I'm not that type of man...

I thought I would be able to forgive you...

But when all the lies turned out to be true...

I don't think there was a you I ever knew...

The skies of sunshine turned to blue,

And I want you to know it was because of YOU...