When folks you meet hide their true identity

Then you wonder why - for there is plenty

Of good relationships formed based on truth

Regardless of how old or their state of youth



For people who open themselves up to you

Tend to be on surer footing than those who

Choose other paths in order to hide tracks

For they are always looking behind backs



If you want folks to accept who you are

Then you are so much better off by far

If you open up and explain yourself fully

For then you won't be tugging at pulleys



Trying to move weights from ends of rope

As you carry on the pretense and then hope

They don't stumble on the things you've hidden

Which'll always appear, for everything's written



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

6:35pm Tues. March 17th, 1998