Glosa: Tell the truth, easy, plain and simple.
Cabeza: Tell all the truth but tell it slant Success in circuit lies Too bright for our infirm delight The Truth’s superb surprise A lightening to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind Emily Dickinson What is truth? It’s no more than what’s convenient, and allows us to cooperate. What is false? It’s really much the same, don’t deny those who hold their truths close to their hearts, Tell all the truth but tell it slant Success in circuit lies. You may procrastinate, and obfuscate, until its too late, and use rhetoric laid on thick, to deceive before our eyes, but it will shine through, deception’s web of lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The Truth’s superb surprise. You may silence the press, kill reporters, and quell the media, as they show us what they ought to; but we shall tell the truth, easy, plain and simple, as if to a child, and hear a million whispers grow into a roar, ‘No More!’ A lightening to the Children eased With explanation kind. So listen to my truths, softly spoken: to be alive is to feel pain, to feel another’s is to be human, to enjoy another’s is sadistic, and bystanders who stand by even-handed principles are complicit, as bulldozers clear cemeteries of the dead, twice dead; out of sight and out of mind, The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind.
And if you have been, thank you for reading.
Moving, heart-rending expansion of ED: highly relevant to current appalling situation, but also timeless. A performance piece for 21 March event?
Do not give up the truth for easy lies. But people do so easily. All so sad