**Honesty**

Meaningless

Society speaks with one voice,

Yet my heart whispers another.

Why deny me freedom?

Why can’t I simply be?

In the quiet of my mind,

A knee jerks in defiance.

A tiny, spirited fist,

Raised against oppression.

A raging spirit struggles,

Yearning to be true.

Even as a cloud,

An amorphous piece of art.

Forged by eons of struggle,

Genetics evolved.

Hopelessness ebbs and fl…