What the truth does

Turn around, turn your back, take a chance to see if you can trust them at you back.

Wake up to a new day and find a knife placed skillfully in your spine.

Tell the truth; respect someone enough to say what’s in your heart.

Look down to find it dangling from a thread.

Spend your life with someone by your side, step by step, moment by moment.

Watch it all wash down the drain in the blink of an eye.

A relationship taking years to build, time after time again just the two of you.

The memories that burn in your mind causing only grief and longing for thing long past.

Waiting for the sound of their voice to make you smile, only hearing the swirl of sound that swarms around you in pure confusion.

Needing that one person with you for that time in your life just so you have something to wake up for.

Opening your eyes to the black and white strife that surrounds you.

One question, one answer, one truth, one less reason to bother anymore.