ATL Flashback ~ Big Rube’s “Love’s Deceit”

Did y’all even pay attention to the words of Big Rube’s “Love’s Deceit” poem while you were drooling over T.I. (or Lauren London)? Peep game:

Pleasure turns to the pain of lessons learned from the strain of the questions burned in my brain about whether love is humane in its touch

These thoughts are like salmon swimming upstream in the tears of your deceit

Fighting a current hurt that kills more than is created by the chaos of our intertwined emotions

Chaotic because the anchor of Eros? arrow has been plucked from the vessel of my undying infatuation

Separation not as simple as the distance between us

My mind no longer possessed by the demons that had been the overseers of my enslavement to your lies

The seeds of these lies rooted so deeply they?ve cracked the foundation of what we once shared

Allowing the faith in us I had sealed inside to gush out like a river

Ripping the image of our future together from my thoughts as violently and as brutally as if it were a child being taken from its mothers arms

I?m left surrounded in darkness but I refuse to be swallowed by it

My loneliness like night air; invisible to the eye obvious to the touch, in its cold uncomfortable ness

Yet If I could do all over again I?d do it in the same skin I?m in

To lay down and let love die, just stay down and let love lie

No, no, no, no, not I

I?ll stay around and let love fly

Even though I?ve seen its darkest form; deceit

Nothing else could tastes this warm or feel this sweet