Today You Couldn’t Look Your Conscience in the Eye

Today you couldn’t look your conscience in the eye.

You had to hold it up and out, away from you

while you persisted in what you had plausibly

convinced yourself had been a necessary lie.

But then you wondered why

you needed this relentless spy

whose endless mission was to pry

and prod you to deny.

And so you let it sigh –

allowed its weightless blue transparency to float

above, beyond and into the immeasurable sky --

and waved it a goodbye.






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