A/N: Written for the Five by Fiction Challenge on Livejournal, part 1 with table: #21.


The Dead Can Never Lie
3. All's Fair in Love and War

There were no such things as lines,

Just circles
that spiralled on

Without an end.

The beginning
had long since vanished as well.

He'd lost quite a bit along the way
but even the past could be brought back
if the path
was a circular one

Even if it wasn't the way
they'd been told things worked.