Lying To the One You Love

they say (whoever the **** “they” are) that “honesty is the best policy” & presumably, one assumes (though we should never assume, so sayeth the 7th grade math teachers of the world ---because “assuming makes an ass out of you & me”) that when speaking in such a manner, the talk is of personal relationships---something we value, something we feel we take part in on a daily basis, something in which we feel we have some sort of control over & hell, that big ol’ work of fiction proclaims emphatically “thou shall not lie,” presumably casting a negative light on any lil’ fib or any embellishment which may seem a bit too extravagant to hold any truth at all---thus making the greatest storytellers of all time, liars & for that fact, depending on how down-to-the-nitty-gritty you get, this makes each & every one of us with out 100% recall when it comes to the memory dept., liars as well, pure & simple. with that in mind, one not need to listen to Billy Joel drone on, instead we all live as hypocrites, saying one thing & doing another, expecting the one we shown the most compassion to, to return the favor, while hoping that the more powerful entities of the world will do the same--- but before the monstrous piles upon piles of libel manufactured in the world over can come to a hilt, that first little web is spun. it comes when one convinces themselves that to reveal a certain truth to said loved one would actually do more harm than “good” & the convincing may take hours, it may take days, but in the end, the outcome is the same--- a lie is made. and every time a lie is made, it gets easier--- though the lies all get filed under the same heading, “things that would have done more harm than ‘good’,” it is the ease of the lying which develops like a cancer, slowly metastasizing until it has spread throughout the body, laying the groundwork for the eventual certain death of said relationship.