Better Over There

You contradict yourself
Every day
Pay no attention
To yesterday

Erase the past
Rewrite the play
You smile, insist
Then turn away
Each line rehearsed
To sound okay

You shade your words
Distort the facts
Turn truth to wax and let it melt
Bait and switch
With charm intact
You make deceit look like self‑help

You say "Let's move on"
Clothe yourself in grace
Say what you must because
You lie to save face

You shade your words
Distort the facts
Twist the truth into new shapes
Bait and switch
with a quick bon mot
Your sarcasm is like rape

Cause and effect, you rearrange
Rewrite the past to fit the page
A sleight of word, disguise of grace
Smoke and mirrors fill the stage

You perfume guilt with clever words
Your logic sweet as smoke
You quote yourself like sacred text
And laugh before the joke

Like a drunk who lost his keys
You move the light's shine anywhere
Anywhere but where it sees
Because the light makes you look better over there

Keep talking
Silence breaks the spell
Keep moving
Stillness tells too well