Honesty & Shame

Honesty:

It is everyone’s duty to seek the truth

and stand by it.

How can you not understand that?

It’s a sacrifice, yes,

but one made for a greater good.

For a greater Self.

Shame:

Which truth are you talking about?

The one you call sincerity?

Sincerity is only noble

when it sees itself

in the heart of another.

Truth is not sacred

if it carries no weight

for those it wounds.

You speak of consequences

as if they are punishments.

But they are echoes.

Ripples.

Reflections of the truths

you dare to reveal.

Honesty:

Consequences?

For what

telling the truth?

Do we silence the sun

because it burns?

Shame:

You forget

you are not the only one

climbing the mountain.

Others sweat,

struggle,

crawl their way to clarity.

They too want to scream their truth

from the summit.

So who are you

to claim the high ground,

when you too

were once blind?

Honesty:

It means everything to me.

Why would I wish

my pain upon another?

If I could spare them

I would.

But they resist.

They fight what could save them.

Grace comes

only to those

humble enough

to kneel at the stone.

Shame:

And yet

would it satisfy you

to tear every string of their soul,

if they are not ready?

If they are still searching

for courage in the dark?

Aren’t you

even in your truth

guilty

of their pain?

Perhaps your honesty

has yet to find its mirror

in understanding.

Honesty:

Then tell me

what truth is absolute?

Shame:

Every honesty

leads to truth

just as every road

leads to Rome.

But the Absolute

it belongs

to the one

who carries no guilt,

no chain,

no thread

binding them to the need

to be right.

Because only the one

free of strings

can touch Truth

in its wholeness.

Honesty:

Then I am not yet free.

Shame:

None of us are.

But we can choose

not to bind others

while we learn to loosen

our own knots.

Written by Carrero Marquez