Lyingly honest!

I would prefer someone flawed who's honest with me rather than a million who claim they aren't but are hypocritically dishonest to the core.

By Stanley Collymore

 

You’re a liar and a cheat! But interestingly enough

from the very onset of our relationship and

despite your full awareness and total

acceptance of how profoundly

opposed I am to such behaviour you’ve

never sought to hide your personal conduct

from me, or ever attempted to portray it

in ways that would either ameliorate

what you’re doing far less justify

why you’ve wilfully chosen

to act in such a manner.

 

And that’s rather strange and somewhat difficult

for me to comprehend; for liars and cheats are

by their own nature intuitively highly secretive

in the way that they usually go about their

normal business and if forced, however

temporarily so, to deviate from this

to operate in the public arena are

invariably quite mendacious

in their performances

to say the least.

 

So I thank you for your continuous openness with

me, and must confess that in marked contrast

to many of the so-called upright citizens

and alleged law-abiding individuals

that I know or hear about you’re

undoubtedly, I guess, one of

the most straightforward

and honest persons

that there is.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

26 September 2013.