On a Leash

What a fool I have become, 
listening to your honey-dipped words,
and eating them up like
manna from heaven.

I thought you were the one,
different from the others.
All men lie, all men have an excuse,
you were going to change all that.

You kept me on a leash with your lies
so that I couldn't see 
what was right in front of me,
close enough to keep your secrets hidden far from me.

Until the day one landed on my door step,
I would have never known about the wool
that was over my eyes. And the separate life 
led far away from my perfect little world.

I wonder now what the truth was
now that I've caught you in so many lies.
And if any of it was even real
at least to you.