<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580297" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Stare Truth Directly in the Eye</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unaware, kept in the darkness<br>Like bread of life lies were offered and consumed<br>Accepted in my youthful innocence<br>Oh what a tormenting grip on me you held<br>I knew not when the veil was lifted<br>With such swiftness the floodgates would be opened<br>Truth pouring forth, surging with mighty force<br>Consuming like a fire, purging the essence of my soul<br>Freeing memories from a haunted past<br>I beg the world not look upon me with contempt<br>For truth to me were the lies I had been fed<br>A child being nurtured in the guise of righteousness<br>Innocence being bathed in unholy transgression<br>When the truth to me was revealed<br>I tried to hide my face from light<br>Tried to hide the shame<br>Tried to be consumed in pain<br>Longed for darkness all around<br>Oh such a frightening thing to stare truth directly in the eye<br>It ushers in revelations of the past<br>Now embracing what was mine all along<br>For truth had not been stolen away<br>Only locked away for me to find<br>All along the key was me<br>Oh such a freeing thing to stare truth directly in the eye</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jennifer+Batch">Jennifer Batch</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580297" data-title="To Stare Truth Directly in the Eye de Jennifer Batch" data-description="Unaware, kept in the darkness Like bread of life lies were offered and consumed Accepted in my youthful innocence Oh what a tormenting grip on me you held I knew not when the veil was lifted With such swiftness the floodgates would be opened Truth..."></div> </div> </div>

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