{"id":2262,"date":"2016-11-10T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2016-11-10T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T22:43:20","slug":"too-many-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Too Many Lies<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lies, Lies—–will it ever end?<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You keep telling lies. Why pretend?<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You lie about this and lie about that.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

How can you lie about being fat?<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t seem to tell truth from error.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You say you\u2019re here, when you\u2019re really there.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

But, you can\u2019t hide your lying eyes.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t, even if you tried.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

There seems to be no truth in you.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is all lies, no matter what you do.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You lie so much, as you try to explain.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is enough to drive a man insane.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You\u2019re world is distorted by all the lies.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is not real. All made up of alibis. <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is a fantasy world where only you exist.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I have had about all I can take of this.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I am leaving. You call it a lie.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t even start to cry.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

In your world, this wouldn\u2019t happen.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

If it did, you\u2019d feel like crap then.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t even be truthful with yourself.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

If you could, you would seek some help.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

In your world, if it doesn\u2019t work.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You make up a lie to fix the quirk.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

If I could see inside your core,<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I would find a shop of horrors.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Totally fictional existence.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Nothing concrete , just pretence.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You\u2019re hanging on to reality by a narrow thread.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

That thread may snap and you\u2019ll lose your head.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

There is little help for that, though you\u2019ll be free.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

No more pressures or stress.—– Just fantasy.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Wake up and smell the roses.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Yes, they are real. So is psychosis.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You are skating on the lunatic fringe.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

One little slip and it is the end.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

———————————R. W. Johnson—–(2016)<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Too Many Lies\u00a0 Lies, Lies—–will it ever end? You keep telling lies. Why pretend? You lie about this and lie about that. How can you lie about being fat? \u00a0 You can\u2019t seem to tell truth from error. You say you\u2019re here, when you\u2019re really there. But, you can\u2019t hide your lying eyes. You … Continue reading Too Many Lies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-random","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}