Truth, unraveled

you met my eyes

one last time

before my hair spilled over

your face

   apologetic

     final

      symbolic

reaching out gently

closing eyes never again

   meant to see

 

you asked me to tell you

  something

      anything

you grasped at me like nightmares

trying to recall

   what is was you’d seen

so wrenching

you had to remember

to forget

I should have told you

   these things

but these things come

    only through living

and then only through looking

  with eyes

     bloodshot and desperate

with desire

     to see

 

I can promise you lies

  thoughts woven skillfully

in words written

   carelessly

meant only to satiate

to cool

to brush gently the top

of the covers

that no one inspect

what’s underneath

   until one day you’ll come to know

everything that matters

          is

     underneath

 

I can tell you

when you’re afraid to write

what’s in your heart

your dreams are refugees

and the truth is your prisoner

until your heart rips open

like a Kansas sky

in May

   you’ll not see

thunderstorms are sent

    to set you free

 

I can tell you

                you will never know love

until love forces itself free

of your hands

    outstretched

a final broken plea

   wrung breathless from

repentant clouds

  spilling, unapologetic

over eyes

    never again meant

to see

 

 Those things would have been truths

   but they would have been my own

like the purple stars

   I watch swim in puddles

or the way I hear thoughts

in the eyes of

others

I cannot give

what was never yours

   to see

what you’ll never know

until you’re

    free

Reviews

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Oh, beautiful...you are so completely honest and raw in your writing I just want to eat your words with a spoon. Honestly...pour them into a bowl, mix them up and savor them.

From the "Kansas sky" and "thunderstorms" to "you will never know love/until love forces itself free"...so many lines that I could quote as completely spectacular. At this point, when I read your work, I just read it to enjoy it and leave you a glowing review...lol

[Emily B]

some folks that truth should be unveiled in a flash all at once, like ripping the bandage off of newly healed eyes . . . i think it should be unraveled slow, slow

too much truth all at once could be blinding

[ChemicalMadness]

Though certain truths seem to reveal themselves in a flash, all at once, I've found that the process of really discovering the truth only comes about slowly....like over a lifetime....and even then........

[ChemicalMadness]

Well, thanks for stopping by and sharing....always glad to hear from you!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the speaker telling the person that he or she has to let go of the past before new love can prosper...sometimes we just hold on to that so hard...and we keep a certain distance, the other person feels it...and it creates a feeling of discouragement in the relationship...we must free ourselves to love again.