Bubbles and Lies

September 30, 2011 at 12:34 pm · Filed under Good stuff, Mostly fiction, Poems ·Tagged author, bubbles and lies, Charles L. Mashburn, poem, writer http://bluebellbooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/short-story-slam-week-11.html

I usually write a short story for the Bluebell Short Story Slam, but the week 11 prompt seemed to cry out for a poem, and so I heeded its call. I hope you enjoy it.

Bubbles and Lies

 

Bubbles are much like lies 

They usually come in bunches

                             One leading to another

                        Obscuring the truth of who we are

 

           But they soon drift away

Leaving the others to burst in time

                               And always sooner than we expect

         We are exposed to the world

 

Some are big, some are small

                                   Some reflect the light in beautiful ways

              Fooling those who witness them

                          But only for a short while

 

                         Bubbles and lies cannot survive

  Unless time can be stopped

              Or the expelling of them does not

                              Or… they become our truth

 

                  What will we do

             When the bubbles are all gone

When the world sees us clearly

                           As we stand naked and ashamed

 

                        Will we hang our heads

       Or quickly dip into the jar

Wave our arm and like magic

                         Remain a figment of our delusion

 

Copyright © C. Mashburn 2011

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