This poem is by Sha'Tara...

  Please Lie to Me
                 As You Lay Beside Me

                                 [a poem by Sha’Tara]

Please lie to me as you lay beside me
just for one night and one more day
tell me a fable that will never end
a tale that will never grow worn or old
let my ears hear the tremor in your voice
let my eyes watch your lips form the words
let my fingers trace their movement
and let my foolish heart hope again

I hear your wishes in your nightly dreams
I think nothing would please me more
than make them remain true for you
but you ask for a lie and not the truth
my own heart is weary of so many lies
each day a new lie told to promise truth
until every day given has gone away
lying for eternity in a shroud of lie

I cannot bear to hear the truth today
not today with my heart near breaking
without you I never was and I cannot be
you remember when you said to me
that was the reason we fell in love
I know you remember though you turn
please look at me for I’m always me
who grew only in your heart garden

that was a patch of wild meadow
not a cultivated piece of tilled sod
you city people know nothing of land
you came and danced vulnerable steps
my arms offered to steady your spin
you fell in and I fell for and ebony hair hid
the desire that already shaped curving lips
hungrily kissing not in offer but contract