“Honesty”
Like through crystal clear glass
I see you beyond
The unconscious impasse
Your words and your actions correspond
Not even a mist fogs this air
Things we share impossibly
Risking all that we care
For honesty
Because without it, we’re just strangers
Alone in the world of the mind
Lonely traitors
Intimacy left behind
Without truth
We can’t find each other
Play the game of sleuth
Why bother?
The real me misconstrued
The real you
Subdued
Living lives we never knew
So, with you, only honesty
I won’t conceal me
No pretense; an improbability
But there’s no lying harmlessly
No caravan of tales
I don’t want to live alone
Because honestly, pretending pales
In the light of being known
—Christina Knowles
Disturbing the Universe 
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