Ellie OConnor Poet Free verse

The worlds most impossible puzzle

In the beginning, was the truth 
It was whole and it was perfect 
Unblemished and solid 
But alas! 
Now came a snake 
And with a mouthful of fruit 
Truth was shattered 
Scattered to the ends of the earth
For humanity to find 
But it was in disguise  
For many false truths humanity did discover
And attempt to place in the puzzle 
Then once seeing some pieces did not fit 
We brought them to the fire
Until they glowed 
Until they melted 
And with our weak breath 
And with our unsteady hands 
We tried to make our fractured truth whole again 
But we made it rounded where it was to be sharp
And bulging where it was meant to be flat
Confident in our catastrophe we continued on 
And on, 
And on.

Humankind has mutilated truth.

We have made something once strong, moldable
Something once sharp, dull
Something once pure, tainted 
We try to take infinity and squash it into our lowly hands 

I don’t want to live my truth! 

My truth was smashed and melted into a self-important blob
It is dinghy 
it is cloudy 
And it is flawed.

We need strong truth 
Unshakeable and unbreakable truth 
Truth that brings order to the chaos  
Truth that cannot stay buried  
Truth that points the way home

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