I misspoke for too long
For a moment I thought
You were actually interested
In me and my words.
I misheard your words
meaning nothing to me
as they swept far above me
far over my head.
I mistook the lies
that left your Red lips with ease
like a small baby’s spit
dribbling and vile.
I misread the signs
You tried to give to me
To show me the lies
Not the truths I so wanted.
Swallow the misery
Of truth or deceit
Dare to show me
A route to true love.
Why try so hard
To find the right word?
To mislead and betray
Take all so for granted.
A word to help cause
miserable cracks to a wound
A façade of what’s right
A wall of what’s wrong
What misled me so
Was the pathetic attempt
That I thought was the truth
But was in fact only lies.
When lies and denies
Are so glibly spoke
Misinform not misguide
Morality collapses on me.
Embraced by misshapen words
A sick misers voice
Stealing not giving
A truth not a choice.
Misery seeps into
our hearts and soaks
Our blood with fear
And misrule with misdeed
Can I explain
A decadent curse
such lies sick corruption
My words do conflate.
Misspelt and unseen
A traitor’s full purse
Topped by the contempt
Of a viper’s sour kiss.
A word still unused
Unsaid and misread
Denied while connived
Unseemly and harsh.
Was that indeed
What I was meant to see?
A mission long lost
To truth and to fear.
I mislaid them all
The words that once came
As soon as they left
They touched the foul air.
I didn’t feel a thing for
The blatant misfortune
But that’s what you gave me
As you’d so long intended.
The misrule you left
Was up in the air
Showing me deceit
And a heart less of care.
My answer was misused
And so clearly abused.
Misled unrequited
A reply so confused.
Mystical word play
So clearly meant
But my heart sorely tested
My soul less content.
Warily speaking
warily said
Carefully listening
Filled with such dread.
Miserly, miserably,
Words full of contempt
Spewed out in anger
To never repent.
Hold up my hand
Hold hard my heart
Hold fast my hopes
Misprinted eternal.
Mistaken, mistook,
Misheard and mistold.
Misspent and misread
Misquoted. A lie.
MIS
Prefix meaning bad wrong.
From Old English mis.
From Proto Germanic missa
divergent astray.
Old Frisian Old Saxon mis
Middle Dutch misse
Old High German missa
German miß.
Old Norse mis
Gothic missa.
Perhaps literally in a
Changed manner
and with a root sense of
difference to change.
Gothic misso mutually
and thus, from PIE mitto.
From root mei to change
See mutable;
in Proto Germanic
missa the stem of an ancient past participle.
Related to Old English missan,
failure to hit.
Which is from the same PIE root.
Productive as word forming element.
In Old English
mislæran to give bad advice
Teach amiss.
in a few verbs its sense.
Began to be felt as
unfavourable
and was used as an intensive prefix
with verbs already expressing.
Negative feeling, misdoubt,
practically a separate word
in Old and early Middle English
and often written as such.
Old English also had an
adjective mislic.
Diverse unlike various
and an adverb mislice.
In various directions
wrongly astray derived from it corresponding
to German misslich
in mischief a miscreant.
Represents Old French mes
bad badly, wrong wrongly,
from Vulgar Latin minus
from Latin minus less.
See minus
Which was not used as a prefix.
Influenced in Old French by miss
The Frankish equivalent of mis.
Mis.
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