EMBEDDED TRUTHS

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I saw in a movie last night that you can't spell families without lies. Write a story or poem showing this to be true.

EMBEDDED TRUTHS

My mother always said that cleanliness was next
to godliness, but that was just cruel pretext
to make me clean my room; to get out of her way!
And that was just a farce, a way to salve her day.

She always would embed her sad heart-felt meanings
inside her tepid talk. mixed with her fierce cleanings.
Her cleaning was motif for her misunderstood
and shattered, hardened life; soul overwhelmed by "should. , , , "

Pretense of secure path; of knowing who she was
made finding out the truth: her madness was the cause
of immobility. Embedded truths not clear
did not pave her way to see her life as dear.

This said, I understand the hiding of "lies" in
the sweet word "family," It works to hide the sin
of those embedded truths that carelessly roll off
beloved tongues, to use to hide unloving scoffs.