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A Reflection On Truth

Why? Love? Friends leave! Where is truth? Where is love in life? Truth is but an idle construct! Friendship nothing but a barren fair weather desert! The world manifests itself through hollow people, without truth,without love or passion! Truth but leaves you naked and will expose your soul then to find it pierced by the hypocrisy and cynicism of those with empty hearts. Truth is a masquerade dressed in fantastic costume by hollow men of no faith, manipulated and moulded to their own rhythmic dance. The world turns on falsehood and deception,truth and trust sequestered,love forgotten! Hollow words cascade from the mouths of fair weather friends! Truth is usurped by hollow men! Where is trusts sanction? Where is truth? Faith dies! Trust? Why? Written by Shane Cooper 12/03/2015

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Constance La France

Date: 5/6/2015 5:24:00 PM

Shane, such a beautifully penned poem, awesome writing, 7, and congrats for it being selected as a featured poem of the week

Shane Cooper
Date: 5/6/2015 5:55:00 PM

Thank you for stopping in and your kind words, I do truely appreciate it. love Shane xxx

Jill Spagnola

Date: 5/4/2015 4:32:00 PM

I believe I have seen and read a masterpiece, oh, what an artist you are, Jill

Jill Spagnola
Date: 5/4/2015 9:26:00 PM

I can not stop taking it in! You have your warrent:0

Shane Cooper
Date: 5/4/2015 4:40:00 PM

Thank you Jill for your wonderful praise, I would hope that one day i will be able to warrent it properly. I am abashed by your words, thank you again. love Shane xxx

Skat A

Date: 5/3/2015 8:31:00 PM

Shane, Congratulations on having your poem featured this week. SKAT love

Shane Cooper
Date: 5/3/2015 8:51:00 PM

Thanks for dropping in and the congrats. Love Shane xxx

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 5/3/2015 8:13:00 PM

SHANE, Dropped by to say hi and congratulate you on having your poem selected by Soup's Administration. This is a wonderful poem to have featured on the homepage. ~Always & Forever~ LINDA

Shane Cooper
Date: 5/3/2015 8:21:00 PM

Thanks for dropping in Linda, and i appreciate the kind comment. I have not written a lot lately, sort of lost my way a bit. Love Shane xxx

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 4/10/2015 9:13:00 AM

- Dear friend Shane, a deep and serious poem - Skillfully written, as always - I wish you a wonderful weekend - big hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Anne-Lise Andresen
Date: 4/10/2015 9:27:00 AM

- I know the "sun is not shining" on you right now - ...afternoon here with me, tonight I'm going on "Elvis" concert ..... enjoy "old" music :)

Shane Cooper
Date: 4/10/2015 9:20:00 AM

Dear kind lady, thank you for your words. I am sorry i have not been around much of late, am having a bit of an on/off mood swing time these days and cannot focus well. You are a good friend to me and i truely appreciate it. Enjoy your weekend also, mine has started 20 minutes ago now. Love Shane xxx

Eileen Manassian

Date: 4/9/2015 7:57:00 AM

HI, Shane. So good to see you posting again... Although this is a bit sad. I've written on fair weather friends. I'm so thankful I have some friends who stand by me...even when I'm so depressed. :) Thanks for being a good friend. You can care of yourself, hear??? BTW...LOVE the shame of the poem. You really did so well on this write. Hugs

Shane Cooper
Date: 4/9/2015 9:45:00 AM

My beautiful enchantress, praise from you is a rich reward unto itself.And although I still stand by words I cannot but help feel that I am more blessed than almost any other on this little blue ball in a very large chunk os Space-Time.I count yoursel, Marry, Jan and Mikki as the best friens that anyone coldever had asked for, love Shane xxxx

Eileen Manassian
Date: 4/9/2015 8:01:00 AM

OOOOPPPS....TYPO there. I meant LOVE the SHAPE of the poem! Yikes! I better edit before I post. Also...GREAT photo! :) Hugs

Anna Hopper

Date: 4/9/2015 7:46:00 AM

Excellent write! A 7 for me! I like to think that there are some honest, true friends out there. I can definitely relate to your words though.

Shane Cooper
Date: 4/9/2015 9:09:00 AM

Hi Anna, Their certainly are some very real beautiful poeple out there. there are alot of stinkers too. I am blessed as are you that we are here on PS where to my astonisment people really care for one another: read my blog ifyou get a chance. Thaks for stopping by. love Shane xxxx

Lotte Lo

Date: 4/9/2015 6:48:00 AM

Dark! I like the shape...a lantern that brings light. Love is not vanishing...love and truth are out there. There are a lot of things in this world that people decide not to see or somehow can't see. A good thing is, that we can learn to see them by simply breathing and opening our eyes :)

Shane Cooper
Date: 4/9/2015 7:28:00 AM

Hi Lotte, Thank you for dropping in, This is a sort of rehash. Originally I had written it as two poems and is still as such on another poetry site, Then I thought i would experiment a bit and this is the result. I had written an alliteration titled Day dream some time ago you might like to take a look, I find that by using alliteration as the form you can really emphasise the beauty of everday things. Read some of Anne-Lise's poems they are beautiful. Welcome to Soup. take care, Love Shane xxx