A Game of Cards

[_chimene_]

So naive,
Still so naive
After all this time
After all I've seen

After what they've done
After what he said,
After how she lied,
Still so naive.

Still so much to learn
And to think that I must learn how
To protect myself from others
To read into their manipulation
To hide, to realize that not everything
Can be exposed

Bare I want to stand
Read into all you want
Try me all you want
And pry at me and poke
- Still so naive

The first sign of intelligence
Is the first sign that I trust
And you made me believe in you
You made me want to talk to you
Feeling as though,
I was just unafraid to hide

But you do stop at nothing
To test my boundaries
You do stop at nothing
To pry inside of me

And I'm still so naive,
So I appreciated your thoroughness
Since I'm still so naive
I did not see through the lies

And still so sensitive
How this hurts even to write
When I thought that I knew better
Here I am, dissapointed at you,
So dissapointed at myself

Thank you for the lesson,
Thank you my friend
Thank you for the warning
It won't happen again

I know about your kind now
I'm ever on my guard
I will not mistake
Your persuasiveness
For something other than
A game of cards