Unhooked!

Unhooked!


I gazed into your soft brown eyes
And darling, I was hooked.           
You only had to reel me in.
Well, that's the way it looked.     

But things aren't always what they seem
And now I realise
What you were offering to me
Was just a pack of lies.                 

Well handsome is as handsome does.
Is that not what they say?
It might seem like some old adage
But it's still true today.                   

You may have fooled some other girls
With all you wit and charms.
To me you're just an octopus,
With tentacles for arms.                 

Go play your little games elsewhere
On me they just won't work
Have done with it!  Now go away
Crawl back into the murk.