WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

It’s what happened.

Viewed through the lenses of:
recollection,
memory,
emotion,
childhood trauma,
adult trauma,
bad relationships,
co-occurring events, and
overall comfort level at the time.

Mixed with:
Years and Years of
cumulative and
varying degrees of
conjecture,
hearsay,
repeat tellings,
belief indoctrination,
party identification,
internet connection.
gender affiliation,
generational generation,
false assumptions,
mistaken and uncorrected inaccuracies,
believed falsities,
and Lies we tell Ourselves.

All shadowed by the
Things Our Subconscious Doesn’t
Want Us to Know or
Even Know it Knows.

Therein somewhere,
Spiraling and Spinning
Ever-Deep and downward,
You’ll find a Tiny Kernel of truth,

Lying there, alone.

Like a piece of cheese.