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The Truth Is True Only If Understood (Otherwise It Is a Lie)

 

 

Hereth comes forth the lion,

In a petticoat dressed as iron.

It can kill with shards that wretch the mouth

From mouth of a mouth

It can become that which once was

It can mortify and it can relieve

It can believe

In senselessness of sense

Beautiful pretence,

A hand for a hand

Shaken by a strand

of truth

For whatever he says is true

if understood

and if it's not, then is it lie,

Is it an apple

instead of a head

A suit instead of a body

Instead of a corpse

Empty, empty, emptied

Of all force

Of nothingness

Of non-senselessness,

Multiplied.

I am the tiger,

aren't I?

Which brings the cloth over a moth

That hath eaten it,

Has bathed in it,

Which brings a claw over a mouth,

Mouth of a mouth

From a mouth that kisses,

Kisses the eye,

Hereth 'tis I, eye for an eye,

The truth, composed

self and overused,

the truth of solitude

the truth of a lie

a lie from a lie for you to lie on at night

For you to sleep and dream

I speak the truth and they die

Unknowingly

Their only goal is to survive,

Their only truth, a lie,

My once contorted face, a sigh,

Finally

The tiger with its pantomime

Cleanses hollow hearts, eats them,

For the tiger is sublime

Takes the night's black stripes

Upon its face, its eyes,

It dies to destroy lies

It lives

To paint its mouth

Mouth from a mouth upon a mouth

A smile

The tiger dies

And with it goes the truth

Behind are only lies.