truth?

Truth don’t shout, it hums real low

Like wind through trees you used to know

Not loud like lies, not clean like hope

Just sits in your chest like a tangled rope

Some say “speak it,”

But what if it burns?

What if the truth is the lesson

And not what you earn?

I been searchin’ under silence

Under skin, behind the violence

Every mirror shows a version

But the soul don’t do compliance

They say “truth sets you free,”

But it cuts first

Peels you down

To your worst words

Sometimes i lie just to feel safe

Smile when i should say rage

Nod when i should say leave

Breathe in shame and exhale ease

What’s real if it shifts like wind?

Is it truth if it don’t let you win?

Truth?