The Filter
It is so easy to tell when people lie.
But when they tell the truth
which words survive?
It is not unlike the tale of the snake in the river.
The serpent slithers
and spits its venom,
whoever drinks the water dies,
and yet you never know
whether it's the poison or the medicine inside,
as the snake is subtle and duplicit,
and whether the deaths were of murder
or of dread
- it never is explicit.