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Subject: [TruthTalk] Interesting Poetry
WDYT "G"
FIVE-LETTER WORD
It shines in the shadows
It shines where the
sun shines least
It lights up the basement
And the breeding grounds of
the beast
You can always see it coming
And run from its rays if you
please
There's a plot to destroy it
A plot to
stifle its effect
Its engineered suppression
Is what they call
"Politically Correct"
The mannequins who hate it
Ensure that its
credentials will be wrecked
A witness swears to tell it
The whole of it
and nothing else
It frees you from illusion
But telling it can make your
world a hell
It hurts those who resist it
But it soothes the broken soul
as well
Refrain:
You think you can hide from its
heartaches
You think you can make yourself scarce
You think you can
remain beyond its tentacles
But you will never escape it in the
end
It's stranger than fiction
Its beauty gives
your eyes a treat
It's more than just a virtue
Its objectivity so
neat
It's only worth pursuing
If you think you can shoulder all the
heat
The captains of darkness
Try to drown it in
their brine
They pretend that its survival
Was all part of their grand
design
The thing they love the most
Has a letter missing from the
line
When Pilate said "What is it?"
There was no
answer given
That's because it's always obvious
And only rarely
hidden
If you don't know the answer
Then to you it will always be
forbidden
You think you can hide from its
heartaches
You think you can make yourself scarce
You think you can
remain beyond its tentacles
But you will never escape it in the
end
It shines in the shadows
It shines where the
sun shines least
� Alan Morrison, 2004
