Sweet Verity
We wander through this cold world
forever in search of answers;
Finding ourselves tipsy in thought,
drunk on the words of a fairytale,
and wasted on the idea of Truth.
Only our bare feet will know
what it's like to travel so far
along a path parted with Despair
merely because a lie
could never be painful enough
to stop us from seeking the truth.
And as we learn more about what a question is,
we seem to learn more about what an answer isn't.
So we clench our fists in distraught
as we're forced to watch
what we thought we knew
slowly drown in rivers
and meander into oblivion.
But as much as we connect our nighttime stars
to form the words in our fairytales,
we'll always remember
how desperate we've become
to simply begin changing the truth
we thought we wanted to hear,
because perhaps this white lie
sounded a little less bitter.
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