Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

The Agony of Truth

Only a few will bear witness
and stand before such connivance
in its dew of blood
to rip the tongue
and the truth
becomes 
the enemy of everyone

Only a few will see
and feel the rusted iron
nailed to the wood of disbelief
payment due in blood
to parch the throat
as the truth becomes
the enemy
of everyone

Yet contrivance earns its pittance
of believable lies
and the few will bear witness
to the faithless stone cold eyes
and none shall know God
for the truth
has become
the enemy of everyone

And the few will weep
to retain such agony to themselves
as the truth will sleep
for the bitter mouths have spoken
with the mockery of thorns
Zizyphus Spina Christi
to keep the deception warm
just as hell has its place
when the the truth becomes the enemy
of everyone

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