Truth and Dare

Where shadows pass
We cease.
As light won't touch you
The darkness will absorb us.

In this twisted game of silence
Where you pretend to love me
And I keep my hatred secret
So the crowds won't see the smoke
The fumes that rise from our inferno
Where you comfortably made our home.

Our bed on fire
Ashes to ashes
Of a love forgotten
Of friends now turned enemies
Where we smile at a distance
Weapons hidden, truth or dare.

A  blind stare down as we keep our eyes shut
Where prayers are murmured in hushed breaths
Where the challenge will undo us
As there are no winners left
No heroes here to spare.

We will rescind cowards not because of fear
But for pride, pity, and bystanders
Because we'll die at the dare, kill each other at truth.

Instead, we'll lie, kill each other slowly
With silence as our poison,
And die as star crossed lovers
Burying the truth as a dare.

-Noemi Garcia Rigsby