Truth Seekers

Sky Collection Quote Prompt №23

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“It is hard to tell which is worse: the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.” — Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), British social theorist

the bowls sit empty
awaiting anything to fill them
or perhaps they are the singing
type — either way, they are beautiful
and they are made for nourishment

share a tale then
while we dine
how truth was fought for
so fiercely and each side
was as blind as the other
a two-headed flashlight
in a pitch black cistern

truth prevails perhaps
because the soul knows
the body knows
one perishes by the secrets
hustled and sold and covered
for eventually blisters form
corrosion from the inside

but the followers of lies
they can go on with their lives
as long as they are…