Honesty Among Friends

Honesty Among Friends

If I’m honest,

I know I should lie

to avoid getting kicked

while face down and grounded

by Earth’s carnal ways.   

You have no time or energy

For all that is important.

Truth sets free eyes that see

yet, you dare admit I’m not the

problem. It is my fault.

I’m making my own choices, too.

Are you deaf and blind?

Shhhhh, be dumb,

that was rhetorical,

I know I've been, too

but somehow in my face, my light,

you cannot see, let alone face your own problems.

So I’ll be honest,

I’ll bleed my tongue dry

in fear I may hurt you. Speechless

while you grill my heart, season my soul & release a burp;  

go on, cumin and I relieve your indigestion.

Intentions pierce this world

and we will be judged, you will

be judged like the way you chew me.

My silent cries rock you to sleep—

Sleep with your nightmares of reality.

No more pretending;

I’ve been unlacing the lingerie of

a fallen angel I once knew.

I finally begin to wake up.

I’ll be a damned fool.

You turned my world around when denying me

entry into your paradise but His Paradise is eternally longer.

Better than the short lived thing

we called love while we mocked Love.

Jesters weep at us when we’re on life’s tragic stage,

they know we’re hero-less unless

we win the waged war within.

I offer prayers for forgiveness

that keep me awake while you sleep.  

Prayer is better than sleeping with you

Positioned upside down digging hellish holes.

Shame on me, mercy on you.

No more dancing with me

I ruined us by giving myself

To you. I’m crawling back up

While your body signals, ‘SOS’

Save Our Souls.

Stop blinding me. I want to see—

You must turn on your own Light.