Arising On The Horizon Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Coming out of a protective darkness,
Can be an emphatically traumatic experience...
For those who have lived,
Effectively disguised falsified lives.

The light arising on the horizon comes.
And will reveal hidden agendas,
Perceived to keep secret...
But a light that shines will expose them done.

Witnessed to be running from this light that stuns,
Will be the ones disbelieving...
Their denials and excuses are refused to accept,
By those with insight prepared to reject deceptions.

Tears to cry with them wept,
May be the first honest attempt with effect...
To show and prove they are through trying to fool,
With masks to wear and lips and tongues overused.

Coming out of a protective darkness,
Can be an emphatically traumatic experience...
For those who have lived,
Effectively disguised falsified lives.

Arising on the horizon,
Is a truth that shines within minds given insight.
Capable to 'see' without the assistance of lips.
And with senses like fences,
Protected against agendas deceived to be meant.

'They run.
But from what?
The light arising on the horizon?
And the brightness of it done? '

They run from their own shadows,
They have yet to realize...
That are theirs but afraid of them.
And they run thinking themselves to be chased instead,
By disguises they've adorned...
But them they do not recognize to realize them as theirs.

'They run.
From WHAT? '

Disguises they have adorned to wear.
But them they no longer recognize,
As once being theirs.

'They run.
From WHAT? '

Just observe.
The 'light' will make everything clear.