I saw you today.
We passed on our ways.
Face and figure so familiar.
Eyes held
above steering
through glass.
I looked away,
ashamed
to have revealed
my heart to a stranger.
Tag: shame
Protection
Some lies protect
The honest truth,
Spoken not to kill,
Preventive measures,
Subtly taken,
To reinvent the will.
Some truths reveal
A lie beneath,
Exposed in all its glory.
Sometimes fibs
And partial truths
Hide a different story.
Some people swear
To honesty
In strictest of devotion,
Others swear
Integrity
To camouflage emotion.
Protection
Manifests
In many forms,
Finds
Different ways and
So conforms
In words
Too hard to say,
Though true,
Fable
Fabricates
Facts anew.
Children
Do this
All the time.
They lie
And hope that
All is fine
Till caught in
Flagrant
Flouting one,
Ashamed,
They hide,
Until someone
Reveals that,
Sometimes,
Though not ideal,
A lie may
Protect
How others feel.
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