Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Let My Words Be Free

Staring at a blank page
Hoping words of hope
Will flow
And fill this meaningless vast expanse

But hoping is for naïve
And innocent
I no longer am
For I have seen life

So let me be real
And brutal with my words
Only they can salvage
The wounds of hope
The white allure of the ideal

Let me rip apart
this shroud of goodness,
Muddying the reality
Only honesty can cure
This lie of civility

Do not coat me
With sugar of righteousness
and honor and integrity
These exemplary words
Ring hollow without action

Let me write free

If not live so.

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