Erratic Ponder
Mindfully
Through each day go forth.
And tumult and terror rains eternal.
Invisible to you.
Not something I would share.
That one, withering secret.
Better left untold.
Lest it destroy the reality.
Of us...Together.
So this poem, in it's modest 9 lined stature, deals with the topic of deceit and lies, and how they affect you and those around you. In addition to this, it contains a tied-in message of secret's, and how some must never be told, lest it should change your life in a way detrimental to everyone. In lines 1-3, illustrated is how we are urged to tell that burning secret that tugs at us every day, that secret of yourself and how you've deceived another, you want to come clean and admit what you've done. You can't, because you know it will ruin your relationship with that person. You also want to keep it a secret at the same time, but you can't do this either, for how can you live with, and look at that person, knowing you should have told them what they need to know when you first thought of deceiving them, so how do you deal with this build up of mistrust over yourself? This is dealt with in lines 4,6 and 7.
In these lines, we understand that it tells us to keep it a secret as you cannot prematurely see the repurcussions that will occur once the lie has been released. This is not applicable to all cases, in fact, it applies only to the small, quite common case of a small, relatively harmless lie, e.g, how much that new watch really cost. This is the type of thing you keep quiet about in reality. This poem is not reality, so it tends to lean more to the emotionally accurate, rather than socially acceptable side. The romantic side to this poem is that, the speaker is in fact, the other person in the relationship, who is actually expecting the other to deceive, and in that is human nature. The primal mistrust of others. Which often is the culprit in many crumbled relationships.
In the final 3 lines, the poem concludes with the "other" actually not wanting to know the dark secret you have. Without knowing, life may continue as it usually would, and we ourselves conclude that there is no escape from guilt, and the final solution is up to the individual person and situation. Relationships are a complicated topic to talk about, and cannot be simplified in any way, although we can spread knowledge and attempt to help others through experience.
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