Lies

• Georgia Mancini, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2013

She lies, just there, on that bed for two

She lied there for almost two days

Exhausted, nothing left to do

Round her filters faces, tears in all their eyes

She smiles weakly, say “I’m okay…”

For we all know, she lies


The young boy of 17, that sits by her side

We all know, when he’s alone, that he always cries

He focuses on his work, all the time just flies

When he says “Mam’s okay.” for we all know, he lies


His little sister is 14 and worried

She sometimes truants and spies

And when her friend asks and she said “At school.”

For we all know, she lies


Finally one day it came to an end

In a yard, two stones sit as crows fly

Because when she said ”I’m fine, go without me.”

For we all know, she lied