Feeling pain is not great, agreed?
Feeling pain you feel when
someone you love cares means
you have to care that they care
that they can feel your pain
now you must feel them feeling
you feel your pain, this, an extra
feel bad strapped on your back
now you can add sorry, sorry
to your pack and a bit more worry, worry.
***
TRUTH. ALL OF IT AT ONCE
***
Its marble face stared
straight out at the
ever-changing multitudes,
an aura of impenetrable
magnificence clung to its
massive contours-
(bronze plaque beneath
the colossus reads, "Eternal
Perfection Right Here.")
Too big, no place for it anywhere
else, but everyone said that they
wanted all of it anyway.
After decades of cutting
chipping, blasting pieces off
Truth turned out to be more
fragile than it looked-
when it toppled over crashing
into brittle bits, each was
quickly seized. (Someone grumbled,
"Not so perfect after all.")