brutal honesty

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amour-raven

Published: Oct 19, 2014

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Have you described y o u r s e l f to the thousands -
Hesitant, but completely honest? W h o I think I am
and what I s o u n d like are t w o different things.

S T O P and think for a second and say,
who are y o u, are you happy with what
you d e c l a r e yourself to be? W o r d s -
you t h i n k they describe w h o you are;
but are they enough?

Be h o n e s t.
are you w h o
you want to be?
O R are y o u,
j u s t y o u ?

False declarations lead to malicious truths that w o u n d.
It burns - hurts like a k n i f e to the flesh, but you know
in the end h o n e s t y will feel like a numbing narcotic
that eases the a c h e and lets the gash become a s c a r :
where the p a i n is gone, but the reason that it is there
is n e v e r forgotten.

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