truths for sale
in the market place
to the highest bidder
each truth tailor made
to specific needs
designed to deceive
leadership truths
guaranteed to convert
accusations into victimisation
religious truths
riddled with repetetive rituals, and
concealed between poetic scriptures
romantic truths, ah our speciality
the sweetest of truths, the simplest too
tell them only what they want to hear
truths for sale…
SONYA KASSAM 
Dear Sonya,
And then there are the truths which continue to live way back off the dirt roads, their keepers looking not like religious scholars or knowledgeable at all. Unlike the truths for sale, the truths which they are protecting, and carrying into the future, are hidden in a dark bag which is attached to their hip with them everywhere they go.
Thank you for this powerful poem!
All good wishes,
robert
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These truths protected in a bag attached to their keepers’ hips found off the dirt roads….these truths sound very enticing.
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WOW ! Sonya, you did a good job. :)
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Thank you Ranu :)
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Loved it, and that’s the truth. P.S. The first truth is free:)
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Haha. From you Bob, one truth shall suffice :)
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Sonya, isn’t it as much the buyers fault for being so damn naive & gullible fault as the peddler’s? I agree that the marketplace is trhiving, though!
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Hey Kunal, thanks for your comment. There are no faults…only facts :)
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Don’t know if I was clear – facts certainly exist, but are masked behind embellishments by the sellers and the buyers only see fool’s gold. (don’t know if I’m still garbled…)
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I think I understood what you were getting at. But I feel there are different realities and perspectives from each side. That it why I am neither faulting what may appear to be as the greed of the seller nor the foolishness of the buyer.
But the marketplace is certainly thriving :)
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