Truth
if you stop
loving her
tell her
don’t sell her
if you stop
loving him
tell him
don’t sell him
it’s what
I would have
said to you
but you told me
too late
or too early
or too much
and it tarnished
the truth
of what
I thought
of you
from public
positions
to church and state
to friends
and family
this blind belief
couldn’t be
not him, not her
and the cynic says,
yes, oh yes, it can be
“it is what it is”
TL