the lie detection expert

how much spite has this
“expert” accrued, how many
times has said “expert”
been “wronged?” how many
times have they been
manipulated (that is, how
many times does it take
to propel them into
“earning the proper
credentials” to write a
book & to base a life on
promoting the self-help
of others, who apparently
can’t do it themselves)?

when the passion is gone &
the dust has cleared, when
one party has become bored
with the other (regardless of
whether or not they see fit to
show it, address it, etc.),
then the
game
is
over---
if s/he is “lying,”
please remember, “expert,”
that it is you & you alone that
brought yourself into this mess,
yes, it is you & you alone
who lived in the fairytale naïveté
that inevitably brought you to this
place, it’s
you who believed that you’d found
the proverbial “one” &
it’s you & you alone, who let your
guard down.

and when the hurt comes, it will
burn you, stress you out to an extent
never imagined before & it will
break you up inside to a point that
you will never be able to assemble
yourself back together the same
way as you had before you met
said “liar”---
no matter how many books you
write, no matter how many people
you think you “save,” you cannot
get beyond the pain remaining
from a bad decision, unless you
do so for yourself, preferably
without pronouncing your
discovery of some great “truth”
which you alone hold & thus
feel the need to spread out to
the world (and in doing so, beef
up your own deflated ego).