Aletheia Poem by John F. McCullagh

Aletheia



Aletheia looked into my eyes
and I could not avoid her stare.
Her silence a grim accusation
as I shifted uneasily in my chair.
No words escaped my lying lips.
No words could change my fate.
All men are confronted by the truth
Be they small or great.
Aletheia, you see, would be my judge;
such was my despair.
I looked again to see her face
and saw mine own image there.

Thursday, August 10, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: philosophy
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Aletheia in greek means truth or full disclosure. Here it is an openness to uncomfortable personal truth as in the Philosophic of Heidegger
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