.
Conscious of every word.
Careful not to dissuade you.
The journey that you’re on
is crucial and near impossible.
Tying your eminence
to your fruitfulness
is like throwing up
a noose in a cherry tree
at full bloom.
.
Do I teach you to tie
the knot that that only binds?
Do I teach you to live
with the consequence
of every decision made?
Perhaps I put you off the scent;
show you horrors
to drive you back to the fold,
but the world needs more
than cattle these days.
.
Do I take a chance
and give you rope?
Maybe hope that you
will learn to bind the wicked.
You deserve the truth,
but in this day and age
the truth
is a deadly weapon.
.
So, what is worse?
Docile ignorance,
and letting you
get tangled in the coil,
or showing you
the sharpness of the blade,
the noise of the gun,
or the roughness of the rope
against your skin.
.
This world can make you deadly,
but it cannot
make you good.
I think I know the answer,
now.
I think I can untie
the knot,
just like I hope you will learn to.
.
.
HG – 2022
