new lessons in real time

I know you are wise
to the ways of the hypocrite

his violent assurances
and smooth-tongued persuasions
coated your crib
when you were a lamb
in swaddling blanket

but please consider
all of the world does not function
on secret deals
and hidden tortures

try to understand
it will take none of your
artifice and Madison avenue smarts
to undo the razor trap
to navigate the compassless map
of your drowning, distrusting heart

but colliding with furniture in the dark
and soaring down a well, breaking
at the breaking of your fall
the letting go, the letting be
will not be without pain,
but, nevertheless, will be both simple
and easy