Veneers of Truth in War
21st Century
The truth is never true, because beneath
What makes it truth another truth remains,
And that, as yet, unknown truth pulls the sheath
Of certainty, then who's conviction reigns?
To honor your conviction must I lie,
Denying mine to prove I am your friend?
Consensus then, you say, will bring us nigh.
Archaic, I know, but so is truth we fend.
I heard a man say Augustine as though
By Augustine the truth was true, as sure
As in his torment he had found it so,
So now he offers it to us as cure.
Perhaps it is. But history denies
Veneers of truth can hide the years of lies.
DayPoems Poem No. 2453
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2453.html">Veneers of Truth in War by William Brendan McPhillips</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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