THE EMPEROR AND TRUTH
jerry KWATCHEY@kwatcheyjerry128608
17 hours ago
#poetry
THE EMPEROR AND TRUTH — A SIMU REFLECTION
Love is not comfort.
Love is courage.
Love is the strength to speak
when silence would be easier,
when words could wound,
but when they must be said.
Truly caring for someone
means telling them what they need to hear,
not what they want to hear.
The Emperor’s New Clothes appears in many forms:
vanity, pride, denial.
Do you really love someone
if you cannot point out the truth?
If you fear their feelings,
so you let strangers mock them?
Waiting for the innocent voice of a child
to state the obvious,
to call out the nakedness,
does not save the person…
it postpones it.
Love is bold.
Love speaks.
Love refuses to let illusions rule.
Because true love is not in pleasing the eyes,
it is in guarding the soul.
A Reflection from the SIMU Collection
