DIDACTIC: "WHAT HAS TRUTH DONE TO US?"- BY SULAIMON KHALID

We run from it;

yet it has no feet to chase,

no hands to hold us back.

Still we fear it;

because it's called truth.

We hide from it

because it shows who we really are.

We stand against it

because it refuses to cover our shame.

We try to silence it;

forgetting it is a voice;

loud, unbroken, and bold.

We fear its words

because they speak

what we dare not hear.

We crown lies as king;

give him a throne of gold;

dress him in honour;

and let him lead us;

because we do not want truth

to strip us bare.

But truth does not die;

it does not grow old;

it does not eat;

does not drink;

does not decay;

it waits;

still and patient;

until we meet it

face to face.

And if lies have journeyed

for two long decades;

one day;

truth will meet them on the road.

Perhaps the real question is not;

“What has truth done to us?”

but;

“What have we done to truth?”

© SULAIMON KHALID 

- Nigeria

The poet persona teaches the undying reality of truth. No matter how human beings flea away from the truth with strange attitudes. The truth would always show itself honourably.