I Lie to Tell the Truth

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See my restless shadows
Made of stable light
Wade through my secret chambers
The honest truth of a sly lawyer

Always changing his case
An impish tinkerer

Picking up cancer of the bones
From a midnight story
Tricked into consoling me
Draining your empathy

Disarm me
Of my disloyal metaphors

Because I simply cannot look at myself
Without warped words

My stories are fishes
You must count on the slippery lies
To grab my slant truths.

© Kaustabh Kashyap