Coating (Truth Hurts)

by Nicole M. - Gemini

What are you coating
   What piece of sand
Are you failing at?
The piece of truth
   You cannot handle
But never admit
to such a failure.
  What it is about yourself
that you will not accept
Or acknowledge
   try to burry it deep
With in whatever
   the drugs
   bad relationships turning into excuses
   a class-act teenager
   self-proclaimed neurosis
   casual sex
   slits in the skin and talks of suicide
   the gun in your hand for your family
   overachieving and acting the best at everything
   diverting away with tears from croc eyes
   a bad-ass attitude
   being unattainable except for two 
   dependency and ignorance
   defenseless -rescue me-

What do you use
  to cover the truth?
Mutilate your flesh
  To expose the red-tinted orb-
You know when you find it
   Because only the truth hurts.
Birth sign: Gemini
Date created: 2001-05-02 00:48:09
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:44:15
Poem ID: 62487

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