Author’s Note: ‘Fake news,’ ‘disinformation,’ ‘my truth vs the truth…’
Society is sliding more and more into accepting lies as fact.
Content warning: Allusion to bodily harm/violence, psychological harm.
Truth is a sharp knife
pressed against a vein,
ready to cut you open.
Lies mask your pain.
Truth will not be kind
in its telling when
words are spoken aloud.
Lies give comfort.
Truth is a hard fall
which knocks the breath out
of you and leaves you gasping.
Lies give you wings.
Truth will be messy
and hard to hold in
your mind as reality.
Lies paint the world.
–
Lies are a sharp knife
buried in a heart,
killing you softly dear.
Truth sets you free.
Lies are cruelty
bottled in fine words
edged with poison and bile.
Truth shows the way.
Lies are a slime pit
which sucks you under
and drowns you slowly, slowly.
Truth pulls you out.
Lies will be messy,
slippery in hand
as they wriggle and writhe.
Truth is the world.
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What will you choose today?
Truth or lies, my friend.
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