Thursday, November 17, 2022

Poem I wrote

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LIAR TRAINING

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When harsh punishment is a threat 


For the many mistakes and learning experiences a child 


Naturally has as they navigate their way towards maturity


That child becomes separated from day to day reality


Because the larger and more immediate reality


Of fear causes them to triangulate the tale of actual events


With the current threat and the answers that they hope 


Will deflect, neutralize, invent or mold the truth


Into something non-punishable.


Truth is the collateral damage to the threat the child lives with


And the skill of lying is honed and polished until


Truth, sliced up and reinvented, dissected gossamer thin 


 Virtually disappears, a chasm widening each day


Between the child's grasp of reality and the fear induced lies


The clever child needs for self-protection

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