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# Do Not Lie (I Love You)
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/do-not-lie-i-love-you/
- Published: 2015-06-17T13:45:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-05T22:52:50.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Relationships

Do not lie to you  
About your intentions  
About what you want

When your body speaks volumes  
With the heat of desire  
With the sweetness of kisses  
With the tenderness of touch  
With your need for me

Do not lie to you  
About your intentions  
About what you want

When your mind reels  
Over past events  
Over past relations  
Over past failures  
Over the intense truth of you-and-me

Do not lie to you  
About your intentions  
About what you want

When you cannot lie  
Despite all your lies  
Despite all your claims  
Despite all your resistance  
Despite my naïve trust in you

Do not lie to me  
About your intentions  
About what you want

When I, in vulnerability, state deep truths  
Give, thoroughly, everything you ask  
Give, honestly, everything I want  
Give, eventually, all that I am  
Give, helplessly, it all to you

Do not lie to me  
About your intentions  
About what you want

When I can see through  
To all your truths  
To all your complexities  
To all your fears  
To all your love

Do not lie to me

When I cherish you  
And I am wise enough to understand why you lie  
And smart enough to learn what you’re saying  
And bold enough to stand behind the truths I find  
And in love enough to share their treasures with you

Do not lie to you  
Do not lie to me

When it changes nothing of the truth  
And nothing of you  
And nothing of me

Do not lie

(I love you)