Hide The Truth Poem by Leonard Dabydeen
Hide The Truth
Sometimes people hide the truth
by spreading a blanket of lies
like wool over your eyes
in make-belief
that love has no shame
convincing enough
if you let yourself be blunted
by naked deceit
but so help me God
when this love bursts into flame
only to bring fire in your home
embers rustle in your mind
as you pretend to sleep
you hide the truth
like you hide in this love
as faith weeps in your soul
a child wakes up
in the middle of the night
searching for comfort
for love
that exuded from the womb
true love is absent
is on a vacation on a cruise ship
deaf to the whisper of a child
loud laughter scavenging the moment
until the phone rings
someone else takes the call
as the caviar wets the floor
love stares in the face of denial
now let me explain
only to hide the truth again.
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4/23/2024 7:16:53 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Hide The Truth is a typical poem wherein the flames of love keep licking folding and unfolding the mysteries of love and living; what it true, what it untrue, how the layers of truth, meaning, unmeaning, which but you know it not, I know it not, which but all of us unaware of. What it is appreciable is the way of presentation; how he says it.