Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Poetry: Truth in Fiction

How much truth is in a story
When it concerns naught
But fantasy?

It's a way to vent
Expressing ideas
Artistic talent

The situations?
Do not apply
To individual life
To the people known

Yet

Reading those words
Hearing those thoughts

The emotion is very real
Such a strong reaction
Cannot be faked

(I read
My first reaction?
You lied of your past
Who are you really?
Is this a story?
Or truth?
Shocked
I have to recall
You aren't a liar)

What tragedy
Faces your young heart
To make a reader cry so?
What glory
Have you witnessed
To be full of such hope?

No, the situation is fiction
But how much truth lies
Behind those simple
Words?

I simply do not know.

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