How do you really feel?
Will you tell the truth,
even if it hurts?

Lying is not an evil
if no one is hurt but yourself.

Will you say it out?
Call it out?
Express what you know
to be true?
Authentic?
Loud, so nothing is missed?

Or hide in the lines set
in systems of convenient truth.
After all, what is to be gained
when so much can be taken away ?

Tell yourself this over and over
till you are convinced.
Tell yourself that no one will believe
you and you are cursed.

Perhaps there will come this day
when the truth bubbles forth as
declaration and you say what you
know even if to deaf ears
and turned faces
and those who want to
pay you away.

 

7/1/2024