The Books Lie

The walls are building back up shielding away sorrow

The key is taken back locking your heart into place

The tears turn into oceans of hurt

Nothing is like the whirlwind of love they sale

The excuse of it being how guys are is long forgotten

The standards raised even higher

The reach for happiness even farther

All the while—your whispers, hidden meanings, pleading eyes go unnoticed 

For if it were real love you would not back down, you would not give up so easily, you would have eyes for only the one you love, and you would never let go

BUT in the modern world

Chivalry is dead  

Honesty is forgotten with a cross of fingers

Loyalty has a double clause of knives in your back

And the promises of a happily ever after

Well, those only exist in fairytales