Treacherous Ways

Insincere kisses they place
On my cheeks and my face
Eager to please, I accept the
Meager offerings of affection

Of a family I am trying to please
One who should be as a mother
The other as a sister

Their promises of love as fleeting
As butterflies in Spring and as
shallow as the color orange

Tracherous hearts and surely
Unsaved souls
They withhold their love if I do not their bidding
And speak of me with evil tongues

"I knew she would be this way", they murmur
As they lower their eyes
And slide them to the left

Becoming as jackals in the heat of the
lion's kill, to take what they do not deserve
And I, eager to please, silently accept
The treacherous ways of a family I cannot appease