let’s face it we lie in degrees
with friends family strangers
enemies even ourselves
making our portraits a forgery
a patchwork of rounded edges
and untruths stuck over the picture
of the painter who watches from inside
but a dare of honesty can release
part of that rough-edged persona
peel back a corner of the portrait
and reveal some of the original
a threat to those with closets
of sandpaper and glue extra brushes
and paint who continue to adjust
and polish who they are
in the end I believe what we all want
is to grab the knife and cut away
everything that covers us
expose each other’s dark corners
to the honest light of day
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