TRIP TO HISTORIC BATH POEM 66

Drawing of yourself involves looking at your life somewhat as if it were a picture or a story itself. Analysing the situations in a somewhat detached manner is necessary to bring the reader or viewer into your idea.

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“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.” Leo Tolstoy

Baseless

The lies you perceive are not mine,

For I do not tell them but react,

To expose such a plan would be foolish,

For the blame would fall on me.

I cannot help if a childish prattle,

Includes the basest of themes,

For it was not me who fed those lines,

So your accusations are baseless.

To be innocent of such a crime,

Is not easy for to tell is to exacerbate,

The situation for a simple truth,

Is enough to bring back the sense.

You may have caught a criminal in the act,

But the senseless nature of the event,

Was not of my reckoning but apart,

I have not put up a defence but the truth.

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” Fyodor Dostoevsky