you can know someone for years
thinking you know them intimately
one day it only takes a slip of the
tongue to know where their hearts
truly lie, shattering glass walls
built on false words, fogging up
rose colored glasses once held dear
- Written for dVerse Quadrille #105: Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War
OMG so true
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much ❧✿❧ love
Yes, very true! Thanks for joining in!
ReplyDeleteIndeed. This happened to me once upon a time, one of the most painful experiences of my life that left me at sea for a time. Shattered glass walls indeed!
ReplyDeleteIt's why I had to leave facebook. I don't think our nation has been this polarized and without direction in a very long time.
ReplyDeleteRealization comes as fast as a slip of the tongue.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing what you learn on social media. Good job we can block people - or just walk away!
ReplyDeleteYou can never truly know someone, human beings are completed and secretive, and we can’t see inside their heads. That slip of the tongue, Freudian or otherwise, could be an underlying wish to be truthful, be oneself. Your quadrille also reminded me of the old proverb, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip’.
ReplyDeleteThis seems true, but I have to wonder if a slip of the tongue on social media always reflects a true person, so often what is said there is without context or body language to read how it is intended. Of course if it is egregious enough, it can be very clear. I would hope for a day when our whole being might not be defined but what we said only at one point and what we might regret later? I don't know, I would hope for Grace. But sometimes things are said that are SOOOOO divisive and hurtful they just can't be taken back, but that happens also in corporeal existence also.
ReplyDeleteSo sad when all that we believed is just mockery.
ReplyDeleteThis is sadly accurate! But we take our chances nonetheless ❤️
ReplyDeleteThank you brudberg and sanaa
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