Here's A Quarter.....

 

California Studs and Duds (no offense to good guys from there) if there are any....JK

 

California Studs and Duds

There was a dark cloud over my house

And the sun had been erased

The day you took your pretty mask off

And let me see your face.

The day all the love and all of the trust

You'd been building in me without doubt

Dissolved into reality like the illusion it was

And left me standing there open mouthed..

I should have known, I should have known

Should have seen those red flags flapping

In the breeze of your insincerities

As I fell into your trapping.

Why is it that almost every man I've met

From that California land

Seems to be a narcissist in love with himself

And the mirror in his hand?

Believing his own hype

And legacies of his own making,

Believing he has wisdom and depth

But he's shallow and he's faking.

Is there something in the water out there

That creates these hateful lovers?

Something there that turns real into unreal

When you pull back the covers?

Do all these actors walk around

Playing characters and roles?

Auditioning hearts to play their next victim

As the heart of the last one folds?

I never dreamed upon meeting

These dazzling, daunting creatures

That soon the charm would melt away

And expose such darkened features.

And all the witless, undone wrong

Would be thrown in my face

Stabbed with cold accusing eyes

Then find myself replaced.

I never ever saw it coming

The rug pulled beneath my feet

I stood with shattered mind and with

My heart like shredded wheat.

They hate it when they see you see

Though you've been so sweet and fair

That when their masks are torn away

There's simply nothing there.

Emptiness and hollowness

These California studs........

Are full of that and yet still boast

When they're exposed as duds.

I'm not a cruel and spiteful person

Not a mean bone in my frame

And everyone that knows me well

Speaks highly of my name.

Self lovers play such awful games

They don't know how to love

They only like it  you're when  down

And they're hovering up above.

Never meet your idols, they say

And that saying I find to be fact

I gave my poor heart to those that I adored

And now, well.... I just want my heart back.

California dude, I've torn down your pedestal

As you're flexing your muscles out there in the sun

Turning and yearning to break another sweet heart

You can turn over now, 'cause baby,  you're done.

©by Voo

12/22/21

 

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