Dēcipere

Do not

learn to lie 

it is better not to speak 

not even with the long 

cliffs of your body

not even with your 

hands when they caress

or your arms when they encircle

or your lips when they descend

despite my words

I have always been an expert 

at obscurity 

at filling the room with smoke

and setting out my glittering mirrors

or wrapping my nakedness

with a red cape like a matador 

because who will 

look at my face to determine

whether I am lying 

when I whip it off.

The word deception derives from the Latin verb dēcipere, meaning “to ensnare” (in the literal sense of trapping someone or an animal).