(A pantoum based on Emily Dickinson's:
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —)
Brutal Truth by Sheila Odom Hollinghead
Brutal truth shatters our self delusions.
Clashing cymbals
pierce as truth blinds and tears
soundless fall.
Clashing symbols of
self shatter and delusions
soundless fall.
Truth lies content.
Self shattered and delusions
searingly engraved by
truth, lies contend
for fragile souls.
Searing in graves,
piercing truth blinds and tears
fragile souls.
Brutal truth shatters our self delusions.
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