Day 356: Come to Know
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sometimes
you come to know a person
well enough
to know
they’re not worth knowing,
at all.
this is hardest to accept
when you have let
them mean something
to you –
or worse –
when you let yourself think
you meant something to them.
and a slow realization
peels your fascination,
like a slippery, silken, gossamer bed sheet
that gift-wrapped rubble,
and reveals their hypnotizing fallacies
as nothing more
than a snake charmer’s tune
and a play
in which you played
the fool.
this is unlike me to say.
it is naughty
and un-ladylike,
i’m sure.
but it’s true.
you know,
it’s true.
once you realize what mankind
can be made of,
it is an act
of unfathomable trust,
i think
to offer friendship
and more still,
to offer love
again.
but we do.
you know,
we do.
some lessons are harder learned than others.
and much more humiliating.
but if learned well
and taken to heart,
are worth their weight in gold.
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