The Kiss of Back

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"Your enemies know you, as you know them, and truth bears on--face to face ... The Mirror Cracks ... Your friends know you, as you know them, and truth bears on--face to back," by the Poet.

An individual's 
persona can be 
best attributed
via personal 
experiences
whether it'd 
be direct or indirect. 
The fault should not bear 
any guilt by association as 
said associates will fall into 
the category firstly as family
entities and secondaries will 
be entities having a consistent 
presence in an individual's life 
that might link to a lifetime. So
entry into the pictured flames 
still as negatives and yet to be 
properly processed are these so-
called Johnny-come-lately's and Mary-had-her-li'l-lamb-swaps in their negative Point of View, see their attributes being threatened as an infection forming on the life that they feel fits into this, --meaning their world best, especially not giving in to sharing--heaven forbid--as an inch 
take a mile concept kicks in, such       B     E
are the so-called contributors they   T   e      t
are the Kiss of Back (a pun on the       r    t
Death adage). Beware of the Trojan   J  a    r       t
Horse that you have welcomed like     u   i    a       u
lambs for the slaughter, gullible prey    d   t    y
traitor in the midst hides the wolf         a    o    e
amongst the lambs, celebrating his       s     r     d
salivating salvation from starvation
by idiocies, --in-sync from behind.

analogybetrayaldeathfriendshipimageryconcrete

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Ink Empress

May 8, 2024 at 2:12 PM

Dear hilo, this is such a powerful write! So well woven and delivered! And couldnt have said it any better than this. A reminder too for readers, on betrayal and more, often betrayal comes not from enemies but those we place our trust in , julius caesar being one of them, shows the history of traitors. I love this! And the quote too is powerful and very fitting for the poem. Sending you light always . Pleasure reading this.

William Kelii Kekaula

May 8, 2024 at 3:54 PM

An anwesome blessing, Ink Empress, like its Sunday again, unlike the one that just left my door, must be curfew, just took off--can't miss head count, no sirens, I'm safe.With my emancipation, yours read & address, on-going--then onto Palins..., hope to read you again ere his next excape, my friend. Aloha, William

Victor Buhagiar

May 8, 2024 at 1:33 AM

I see a reference to two traitors: Judas and Brutus. Victims Jesus and Caesar. There are more traitors in this world but you dealt with two despicable people. Both Jesus and Julius Caesar knew who was going to betray them. But I cannot link The mirror cracked. Seems from a well-known poet The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side, The Lady of Shalot. Excellent poem.

William Kelii Kekaula

May 8, 2024 at 3:09 AM

I intended to show that lifestyles of differences of one opened to the ills of life dealt accordingly gaining the upperhand opposed to that of a cloistered life removed from sins and suffering BUT knowledge itself on how simple error can be corrected than endured when knowledge of such also at a distance, that death is preferable than afeared assimilation. The Lady controls BUT WHOSE FATE ?? Aloha.