Love cannot dwell where lies still lay, 

No matter the denial, there can be no ray,

For whatever illusions are thought to elate, 

The lies all connections do permeate. 

So those words of want are spoken untrue, 

Because falseness has never been admitted to, 

And all love becomes yet another ruse,

By tainted hearts that seek each other to use.

And interest that comes from out the blear, 

From one known for years without being near, 

Is just a ploy without sincerity, 

A grasping need for control of another’s key,

Seeking to grab whomever can be taken, 

But there is no real love there to awaken, 

Just the motions of courtship for their own sake, 

For a body to own and a marriage to fake,

Taken for no other reason than that it is there,

Though there exists no fire, no love in the pair. 

For a union with a liar has no root, 

And both become liars in its pursuit. 

All souls who come close the deception can smell, 

So any interest a false promise like a dry well, 

Just words with naught but ulterior motive, 

Like an imaginary light from an unlit votive. 

No cooings, no touches arise from real fire, 

No, honest souls cannot love an unrepentant liar, 

And a liar who has never made a guilty plea, 

Can never truly love another honestly. 

Those who fake love to fill vacancy, 

Are ugly for eternity. 

Two dead hearts for appearance making believe, 

Intent upon themselves and others to deceive.