more poetry

Just something that fell out of my brain ..

Lies and Truth: The Life We Live

The words danced neatly,

Slipping through the ranks of soldiers

Polished gleaming white,

Giving no hint

To the faint scent

Of the rancid decay,

Gathered from the backside of the line

Lies are lined

Like a gently innocent picket fence

Surrounding the nearly perfectly manicured

Blades of deceit,

Trimmed exquisitely

To the predetermined length of societal acceptance

How long before the lies we tell

Become the life we live

Or the life we live

Becomes the lies we tell?

If then,

The lies become the life we live,

Are they still lies

Or simply the façade

Of whom we wish to be?

Is this the mask we wear

Until the time we grow beneath

To mimic the features of what we wish to be?

Have we then become

That which we aspired to be

Or are we merely the skin of truth

Stuffed with proper lies?

Have the lies we tell others

Become the lies we tell ourselves?

Harsh truths

Become the revealing x-rays

Of our true selves.

We shudder

At the mention of it

We scurry away

From its presence

Like scared mice

At the sounds

Of its approaching footfalls

We peer at the truth

From our cloistered hiding spots,

Hoping it will wander away

Before noticing our smell

Too late

For too long

Have we lingered

We are captured

In truths unrelenting stare

We can feel its unwavering gaze

Stripping away the layers

Of our years

Of practiced deceit

It works without favor

No malice of heart

It carries no grudge

It is only what it is

The truth

When truth has finished

Its unconscious task

We stand revealed

In our stark nakedness

Stripped of our excuse

Devoid of our pretext

Alone in our own self

Then we can see

Then we can know

Who we are

And where we need to be

When we stand

Sans lies

Sans deceit

Sans excuse

From the humbled perch

Of undefiled truth

Can we begin to build

The building of who we are

Founded on the foundation

Of revelation

Of truth

Of what we are

We are

All of us

Cut from the cloth

For flawed humanity

Of this tapestry

We are all a part

In this

We all belong

We all fit

In the stark revealed truth

Linked

Humanity to humanity

Flaw to flaw

Truth to truth

It was only the lies

That separated us

That created the barriers

That forced the division

Until now

We are now joined

In lies and truth

In the life we live

Ron Simpson, Jr.

December 14, 2009