Speaking the Truth
(On reading Guy-Adler Dorelien's
poem, 'To Speak the truth')
'To speak the truth
Is to free a caged bird,'
you said,
but I saw:
to speak the truth
is to be a bird
caged;
yet I say:
to speak the truth out
is far better in either case
than to conceal it
set free the caged birds
and be caged in return,
smiling
to unveil
the darkest bowers
of lying owls
in masks.
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