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Truth

Truth is

I can blame them for breaking my heart

I can scream loudly and tell of  how much I gave

My loyalty, my heart, my love....

Everything my father instilled in me

Though nonsensical, truth is, sometimes the very best is not desired by them

Truth is, signals of disaster went ignored

For the thought of life like the Cleavers

Fairy tale of 50's era love

Blinded by the immediate

Disposed warnings of the past

Miscarrying the trust of my future

All to live in the now

Now, this moment of smiles

This instant where laughter prevails

Exchanges of lured glances

Mine escaping as i'm exposed

Emotions spill over

Secrets, I cannot keep

Excitement at the possibility of him

Weakens the walls

Eventually they  tumble

To reveal what was once hidden

While his...yeah his... counterfeit at best

Simulated exercises

Maybe all to arrive at what lays below my waist

But I sensed....

Thought I saw a glimpse....

Betrayal that's plagued me all my life

Always present though from it I desperately flee

Easier to disregard than to affirm

Warning bells blaring

Managed to convince myself they were bells of the alter

But how can I blame them

When I surrender myself for slaughter

Melting into the arms of a dangerous stranger

Not heeding the voice of my father hopelessly screaming "WAIT"

I lunge into the sea of possibilities

Only to end up carried by currents to the sea of broken pieces

Shards of me destroyed

Truth is my pain is self inflicted

Never has my father not warned before the storm

Force myself to look in the mirror

Truth is..I always knew the truth

It was much more comfortable to live the lie

Truth is

I can blame them for breaking my heart

I can scream loudly and tell of  how much I gave

My loyalty, my heart, my love....

Everything my father instilled in me

Truth is

I bare responsibility for the tears I cry

I stand ashamed and disheartened at my truth revealed

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Written by
olivia-m-jackson
Sierra Leonean
Published
Apr 4, 2011
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