Lying Love Lies ~

Love has turned its head away
bringing distance to a crying heart,
lies spoken, the body begins to sway

Your desires wandered from the start
love disappeared in a moment's lust,
plunging my soul with your poisoned dart

Crying pain crushed my frail body’s bust
changing its blood flow from a dying cell,
as truth showed you my broken trust

Your lying love lies promised never to tell,
your secrets I now live with, in my own empty hell

Second Place Winner
Beautiful Form Poetry Contest
PoetrySoup.com
June 2, 2010

Author's Note:

Terza Rima form of poetry is a verse form composed of iambic tercets (three-line groupings). The rhyme scheme for this form of poetry is "aba bcb cdc, etc." The second line of each tercet sets the rhyme for the following tercet, and thus supplying the verse with a common thread, a way to link the stanzas. The only time the form changes is at the conclusion of the poem, where a single line that rhymes with the second line of the final tercet stands alone; the rhyme scene at the end of the poem looks like this:
"xyx yzy z."