Self-awareness

We never have a way of knowing
Just how fast or slow we’re truly going
Trying to remain true in a world of lies.
The husband stutters, his wife then sighs.

I see the soldiers; I see their precision.
Yet I’m rife with doubt for this decision.
The fish swim through the water, not knowing the surface.
We swim through the world and think there’s a difference.

I train my eyes to see the subtle differences between black and white.
I train my mind to do the same for wrong and right.
The clock on the wall says it’s 5:15
It only matters if you are seen

When repression is the method of madness.
It’s only the discovery that brings sadness.
Beware the ones who speak the most
They are the ones who live with ghosts.