The Truth of Ourselves

 

We have to see our own faults,

our own shortcomings 

and complicity with evil

before the full weight of truth

can inhabit our minds and we

truly see what is to be seen.

Until that happens the truth 

about ourselves and the society

we inhabit is intolerable.

It can only be experienced

with denial as an intermediary,

a filter, a fudge, to protect us 

from the truth of ourselves and

what we (mis)perceive 

of the world around us.  

Until that happens there is only justification, not truth.