We challenged, then declared
Discovered and shared
Took care and
Uncovered, (undercover).

We shed our skins
Cooked up philosophies
Questioned
Shared raw memories.

But you were gilded
Misguided
Mere cheap rhetoric
You concocted.

Full of tin gifts
And sales pitches
Pretty things
And empty pleasures.

And I realized
It was wasted
Pure deceit
I tasted
Like imitation leather.

Still, you displayed
And played
Paraded
Then betrayed.

I was careless
Precarious
Fallen for
An enigma
Gone delirious.