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 a 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