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Truth Be Told

by Elisabeth Barstowe — Read all 441 poems by Elisabeth Barstowe

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Truth hurts I know
that's why we push it away as we go.
We pull down the blinds
to hide our minds
We reinvent our sorrow
we beg, steal and borrow
Our yesterdays as well
as our tomorrows.
Funny thing the human mind
to itself it can't be kind.

Truth be told
we all bought and sold
our happiness one time or another
this we know and we hide from eachother.
Life's a theatre a stage
and we're performing in mellowed rage.
Pretending to own the rights to our story
pretending we didn't create our own purgatory.

But as the years pass by
a pattern forms out of each sigh.
You start to learn as you go
and little by little you know.
You pick up reason and rhyme
you catch a glimpse of true peace of mind.

And much to your surprise
you suddenly realise
that you had that worn down roadmap all this time
locked away inside your own mind.
The road to happiness is your creation
you just have to resist the temptation
to put the blame where it don't belong
don't keep singing that same sad old song.
Take back control of your life
lead YOURSELF away from strife.



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Reviewed by Simple Sounds (Reader)
Reviewed on April 22, 2010
Full of wisdom and understanding. SS

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on March 28, 2010
Wow wise words and ones many should heed, myself included.
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Reviewed by Richard King
Reviewed on March 24, 2010
Wow!!! For someone who has never met me, you captured my life pretty well. Mine and a lot of others I suspect. Well done, Elizabeth, I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing, thanks for caring, Dick

Reviewed on March 22, 2010
Fantastic poem. Much thoughts and wisdom to ponder

Reviewed by Liana Margiva
Reviewed on March 22, 2010
VERY NICE!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on March 21, 2010
Ah, I wasted many, MANY years before I stopped long enough to take stock of life and what it truly was. I've never been happier.

Reviewed by Paul Judges
Reviewed on March 21, 2010
Well written poem, Elisabeth

Reviewed by Diana Wiles
Reviewed on March 20, 2010
I have recently come to the same conclusion! The roadmap was there all along, though well hidden..and the control is always within our own grasp. I enjoyed the optimism in this poem of fianl self realisation..

Hugs, Diana..

Reviewed by The Poetess
Reviewed on March 20, 2010
The grand escape. ;-) Perhaps the healthy way out of it is to completely face it, pass THROUGH the heart of it and just let it be what it is. Sadness can turn to bliss, when we embrace it. Hope you don't mind my expressing my opinion here. Hugs to you.


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