Scoundrel - Contender

The sins of the son mirror all the father’s moves

I have his nose, his ears, his eyes, his ability to lie straight faced to you

Being chased every day by this burning effigy

Stitching one lip to the next, instead of bringing about familial shame

Smell of gin and sin, lipstick across your chin

In a shade our mother would never wear

Trust now lost like youth, fiction eclipsed truth

Escapism, my new religion now

Birthday party absentee, fifth year abandoning me

And the candles burn out deep into a stale cake no one will ever eat

Dial tones pierced everything, called me into a nightmare

The only one left standing

Does silence mean you don’t care?

Don’t kiss goodnight, don’t tuck me in, I know where you’ve been

A cheek that forever turns

No longer