Speaking to Truth

 

Truth

Ah, Truth! How hard it is to speak of you when the leader
of our country would rather deal in lies, when the new test
of value is whether you could be held accountable.
 
The old line “truth is beauty and beauty is truth” refers
to Keats’ Grecian urn, forever unchanged by time, not time
itself which changes, true or false, indiscriminately.
 
Then we must thank heavens and earth for flora and fauna’s
fair colors which follow a pattern whether nearer birth
or death, however ravaged by time, climate and danger.
 
And we will create offices for the new young heroes who
dare act upon truth despite threats of demise, despite
the personal losses they risk, oh Truth, to carry you.

 

For my prompt "Truth" at What's Going On? 

 

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