Truth Known But Concealed Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Never be the one to feel validated and convinced,
That a truth known but remains concealed...
Will stay unrevealed in an approved suspended void.
To be kept expectedly undetected.
With a repeating from scriptures to quote and protect,
Those who know they have committed misdeeds.
And yet...
Further and further from telling the truth they get.

So many today have adapted to customs and rituals,
To routinely perform with it perceived they can manipulate,
The Almighty with prayer.
As if 'His' or 'Her' or 'It's' presence was not aware Or There.
Only to discover themselves in deep guilt they can not rid.
And to pretend their false accusations invented and meant,
Were mere mistakes unconsciously made...
To hope without confessing they would be forgiven of them.

Never be the one to feel with faith faked to devote in worship,
That a smothering of truth reduces the consequences one pays.
It doesn't.
It only delays the re-action of the ones,
Who know they have been betrayed by those who knew it done.