ANYONE for TeA???

Oh, how you bled into my tea
cup today
Those little flowers...the ones
that decorate the rim?
Well, they quite perked up
their colours, soaked up all
Your lying sin...

Of course, the saucers,
always slower
Caught those drips disguised
as tears
While I?...I sipped that lovely
tea, and
Smirked away my jeers,
thinking...

What a wonderful fake...oh,
fake you are
The finest actor here by far,
though
Friendship must hold firm in
life
So I hugged you, kissed away
your strife, but 

What an actor... what a fake
you are!!
The finest player here by far
I smiled and sipped that
lovely tea, such
Dear friend, you are to me...

Marion Price (2020)