Sunday, November 22, 2020

Asked and answered

Should you ask me a question
Don't be angered by the answer
I'm honest if I am allowed to be
I don't like this sort of testing
Truth shouldn't require dancing
I'm really not that moody
Just trust me and let me give you it
But if I might  say
Is there an answer you need?
Or can I just assume
Like other people do
It doesn't matter to you
As I'll live nonetheless
Don't ask me to deceive but feel free to ask
Answers are no hard task but
I don't like myself when I am required to lie
Just for the masquerade
Where the lies all hide behind masks

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”  Nathaniel Hawthorne