Love, Lies and Truth

What if a loved one told a lie
to help you see the truth?
Could their love be so much
even to say goodbye?

Only someone that deeply loves
can forego themselves
and mirror the other person –
showing them what lies
hidden in themselves.

It takes great courage and
understanding to receive such a gift.
The wise show the lies as a lie
once the truth is seen.

Yet in between lies a period of darkness
where all seems lost and irrecoverable.
To pass through this,
to see one’s own lies as lies,
needs tremendous trust and patience.

Wait for the fog to settle before you look,
for in utter darkness one does not know
that one is in darkness, and cannot see.
This is man’s essential difficulty.

And when all settles
still one knows not for sure,
but it does not matter.
One can act and live
in accord with this intuitive space
that does not know for sure,
that doesn’t believe.

Lies and truth are fictions
on the path of truth.