Always Be True

-Always Be True-
by
Keaton Foster



I could not lie
I have not the time
I speak only the truth
Bent like a spoon
Useful to only fools
Such liars in kind
Always telling me tales
Halves of quarter truths
Curious of my kind
I listen quite well
I willingly play along
Hungry, I take the bait
Hook, line, and sinker
I thrash around
From the depths below
To the waves above
Back and forth I go
They fight to land me
As I fight to resist further injury
The battle between us rages on
For minutes, for hours, for days
Sometimes the line breaks
Sometimes it’s the weight
Other times it’s the tension
Resistance has always been my greatest weapon
I understand it better than most
Better than those who try to catch me
If I could speak with any real clarity
Instead of so poetically
I would say, I would shout, I would scream
Always be true
I am sure that they would not listen
I know that they could not understand
We are similar creatures made different
I have been through hell, I know quite well
I am well aware of what is both up there
And what is way down here
Telling me their tales
Is just part of the game
I take what they say deep inside
I make many of their sayings mine
Then just like that
The potential meal on the line
Easily becomes the man holding the pole
Then it is them that is caught
Many of them read what I write
Often unaware that what is being said
Is more about every one of them
Than it is about any part of me
That is why I often say
Always be true
And what is being said
And what is being taken in
Will be regurgitated in ways
That will sooth your hunger to be fed
And your desperate need to understand…




Always Be True
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013