It’s so easy to tell someone a lie
It’s so easy to say I love you from the lips.
It’s so easy to make false promises.
But to say the dark truth, sometimes we lose friends, we lose loved ones,
The world may turn their back on us.
I do not love you.
I go from loving to not loving you.
My heart moves from fiery love to a cold block of ice.
The January wind consumes my heart
My heart only knows cruelty toward you.
Rage inside of me steals the key that could calm true love.
Now my love for you dies
It’s time for me to let you and let that fake love go.
Goodbye.
Now I am alive once more.

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Kimari Smith was born in 1985 in Jamaica, where she received a Licensed Practical Nurse diploma. She now studies at the Queens Public Library’s Peninsula Adult Learning Center, where Ebru Yenal is the library literacy specialist and Barbara Miller is the center manager. The mother of two children, Kimari Smith looks forward to earning a Registered Nurse degree and would also like to publish a book. She writes, “Dream it, speak it, believe it, and reach it. Work toward your dreams. Without a dream, there is no hope.”