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Like Lying to a Cooing Child

January 26, 2011
By indieink18 BRONZE, Orange, California
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indieink18 BRONZE, Orange, California
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"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel." - John Lennon

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Lying to a child is…
Easy
But,
Unacceptable,
Unfathomable,
And perhaps inhumane.
Children are…
Blissfully unaware,
Dependent,
Oblivious,
And ignorant
Of fact and fiction,
And of reality and idealism.
I will…..
Rock at your feet,
Coo at your sight,
And smile at my own innocence,
If it means
It will be just as merciless
When you lie to me.

© Jacob H., Phoenix, AZ

The author's comments:
The moral value of lying to a child, even to protect them, was something that was on my mind. And since I couldn't quite figure it all out, I wrote a poem about it :)
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Dead-on. Very, very good. 5 stars!