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Naked honesty - so proud I've been to call it mine.
But now it thrusts my face into the truth:
I have attempted to live behind disguises.
Disguised in discourse,
Disguised in debate.
A frightened child hiding behind the masks of my arguments,
Fearing love because of its power to hurt and to heal,
Rejecting compassion because of its threat to expose,
If only to myself,
The abject weakness that defines me.
Renouncing these for myself,
I have refused them to others.I have made much
of my
understanding,
But reality grabs me
by the
throat
And forces me
to
acknowledge
That my understanding
is even
less
Than my inclination
to love.
Rick Deering |
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