Beautiful Liars

We lied to each other as we lay together.

He lied and said he’d done this before, but in all fairness, so did I.

I lied and said I loved him, perhaps I believed it, but that didn’t make it so.

He lied and said he’d love me forever, but I harbor no grudge;

                                                                Forever was never what I wanted.

I lied and sighed “that was amazing”--I didn’t know better

                                                                but I knew enough to know it wasn’t so.

He lied as I looked into his eyes, deep pools of cosmic intensity that wrapped me up and transported me to a place where our lovers lies were the only truth.

Sweet, subtle lies of fading youth.