When lies are told
Society crumbles
Society falls when the support beams break
The truth centers inside people
it is ever present, never gone
yet it is corrupted by daily use
Politicians, yet the mailman
The queen, yet the clerk
Everybody breaks it
Nobody admits it
without this we would not be
It makes us human
but we only truly become human
once we break it
We live by it
but once we break it
yin tips the scale
It keeps life moving on
it keeps the gears turning
if it halters, the gears will stutter
life will still go on when it cracks
but it will feel wrong
because it is wrong
We as a society depend on it
it is what keeps us true
We as a society
call it honesty
I like how you say that no human is above another in the Tao.
ReplyDeleteI like how this poem is saying that we all depend on honesty, even though we may not realize it.
ReplyDeleteI like how you said that in society honesty keeps us true to ourselves and to others.
ReplyDeleteI love your poem and the truth it reveals. It had a nice flow, a lot of "yin and yang"
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