Hold Your Tongue

Hold your tongue from fiery thoughts
Not everything needs telling as it ought

For truth can sometimes be unkind
Stripping bare the bad things you’d find

You see some truths need not be said
For the hate that will be bred.

© Paul Warren Poetry
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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