Lies To Get By

by Garfield N. Morgan

We crucified the truth, you and I.
We sucked poison from the fruit
And we both died.
And for a while, death tasted sweeter than life.
But such are the lies we use to get by.

The moon shines emptily from our eyes,
And lacks the emotion of the sun
As we cling to the night
For the day is still too young
Still too innocent to shed its light
Upon the altar of our mistakes.

And so morning breaks,
To find us clinging to the leaves
We use to hide our nakedness,
And to shield ourselves from the shame
Of what we had done.
And we realize that chaff
Is what we had laboured to become.

We sterilized the wound you and I
But nothing ever comes back to being
The same when it heals.
And we look to the sky
When it fails to rain
In the fields where nothing will grow
But sorrow.

We pass each other on the road and smile,
Knowing full well, the reasons why,
Tears burned out our children?s eyes.
But we will tell them that we tried.
Though we know that in time,
They may find that our lies
Are hard to get by.

–Garfield N. Morgan

About Author :
Garfield N. Morgan is a Computer Analyst and freelance writer. A native of St. Catherine, he now resides in Kingston, Jamaica. (email: nattimorgan@yahoo.com)