Tears and truth

"Let our conversation now be without precedent in fact or literature, each one speaking to the best of his ability the truth to the best of his knowledge."

-Samuel Beckett

Thicket

“For we love both
                       the truth
and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”-Aristotle

 
Within this copse, this thicket we call relationship, the woods are a blur of trees and
             I, too, imperceptible.  Surely to you and now to myself.
        My self – indiscernible from you.
    The path ahead, hidden by shadows, veiled in mist. 
                              I wait for answers, praying not to disappear.



magpie tale

Truth

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.-EdithHamilton




What you (really) need to know...is that I miss you.
What I (sort-of) want to say....is that I'll wait.
What you (absolutely) need to learn...is that I love you.
What I (kind of) want to do....is say I'm sorry.


No.


In fact,


I positively pine.
I will surely stay.
I actually adore you and truly, I apologize.





submitting at Jingle Poetry