26 Jan 00

Parts Of Denial

Lie

Truthful as they come

You seldom lie to anyone

Lest you include yourself

And the denial of the things you want

Growth

Your old fashioned mode

Is just a way

To avoid

Intimacy and change

Reality

Your longing for the past

A denial of today:

A longing for the future

Just the same

Recollection

A memory can be exact

But untruthful in what it contains

You can have the best the worst

And forget what remains

By

Everett E. Phillips, III