Stacey Dye

Blind Trust

Your words sink like rocks.
Eager to believe you
I kick down to the water’s murky

bottom blindly feeling for the truth.
Repeatedly I emerge
breathless, empty-handed.

Convinced stones of veracity hide
in the poison of your promises I descend
into the depths yet again

prospecting in the mud of your deceit—
nails black with the filth of your lies.

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Stacey Dye has been writing radio and television copy since 1979 and does voice overs at a local cable TV station. She's been writing poetry since she was a teenager. She is a member of the Internet Writing Workshop and the Wild Poetry Forum.