Poem #226 - This poem is a a reflection on the honest truth about honesty.
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Joshua Brown
If I could write a storybook
To children past my time
And tell them of the power
Of the brave and cautious guy
I'd tell them of the wallops
That the enemy unfurled
Upon the good and righteous
And the little innocent world
Of children in their childness
Those tiny little souls
With eager minds to figure out
The ways on which to grow
Climbing in the treehouse
Up high away from hell
Only then to stumble
Awake he did to will.
What was that paradise
From which he did descend
Into abyss of silence
Away from all his friends?
His scrotum kicked in hatred
Of the poor low life survived
Betrayed by her who noticed
And "loved" although he lied.
Roaring to distract them
From the pain I gave to they
Because by time I withered
From the greed I chose to stay
Smile at the kingdom
Stolen just by sloth
In pretended joy and pleasure
By the men who wore the cloth
Just another empty husk
Of voodoo noise and rage
That birthed to life a child
Then he turned a brand new page
Lies.
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📅 Written September 18, 2024
📍 Written at Joshua's work along the West Toll Gate Creek
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We are all tempted to obfuscate the truth, with truth. Oh, to be perfectly honest! But surely this perfect honesty would drive us all to some indescribable madness.
Instead we should aim to walk some middle ground, holding ourselves accountable for the lies that we told in the past that have misdirected people about life or how relationships work while at the same time seeking to understand that there are plenty of people who held some responsibility to challenge us and charge us to tell the truth before it became a stumbling block, and they didn't.
So get up, dust yourself off, contemplate for a moment on the lies by omission that you may have "told" and keep going. Tell your stories. Share your wisdom. Stop lying.
a Joshua Brown poem #226 "Witchdoctor's Storybook"
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