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Depth isn't truth
December 31, 2025
"Depth Isn’t Truth"
I painted the sky green
and told you to believe it.
I spoke with steady eyes,
with colors that didn’t shake,
with a voice trained to sound like certainty.
And you believed it
as deeply as the Pacific Ocean—
too vast to doubt,
too deep to search the bottom.
You mistook depth for honesty,
calm for clarity,
confidence for fact.
Oceans don’t explain themselves,
and depth doesn’t promise truth.
You said lies were never meant to sink—
and somehow, that feels like the truth now.
And saying that?
That was the biggest lie yet.
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I am Areezh, a 16-year-old from India. I was listening to a song when the thought occurred to me that lies can be too believable when they are spoken in a very convincing manner. That's when I wrote this poem, with the help of the ocean as comparison.