God offers to every mind its choice between truth and
repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a freedom in the naked truth
when all that is and can truly be
is laid before the
world
it gives a lightness of being
that secrets can never provide
my heart knows this truth
like a mother knows her child
my soul has carried it
like a homeless man
with a duffle bag full of all he owns
it is a weary journey
one that leaves no strength
and steals peace
bit by bit
like a pilfer and an unguarded house
I left that place years ago
and laid my burdens down
in the middle of a crowded street
lifting prayers higher than a bar-headed goose
the day I chose to speak the truth.
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