Andrew Delapruch Poet Free verse

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.

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