Tell It Like It Is
Sometimes unvarnished truth is hard to take.
It’s often just as difficult to tell.
Truth may cause tears to fall and hearts to break.
Withholding truth when there is much at stake
is wrong. How could such pretense turn out well?
Sometimes unvarnished truth is hard to take.
Those in the know will step up for the sake
of friends deceived, whom flattery befell.
Truth may cause tears to fall and hearts to break.
Delusions vanish, leaving in their wake
reality, with which they now must dwell.
Sometimes unvarnished truth is hard to take.
Disaster may be foiled by those who make
a move and help a trapped friend break the spell.
Sometimes unvarnished truth is hard to take.
Though wiser now, enlightened ones will ache.
Time’s passage will the brunt of anguish quell.
Sometimes unvarnished truth is hard to take.
Truth may cause tears to fall and hearts to break.
October 26, 2022
Placed first in Mystic Rose Rose's Premiere Contest Tell It Like It Is
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