The truth is fabric

Génesis Hernández González
Departamento de Psicología
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UPR RP

The truth is versatile

put it on, take it off

an attire, a piece, and thus,

there is no naked truth.

No nakedness in things

and such, not much skin for show.

Truth without the substance

is not even reality. Now, that—

that is naked, always obscene,

indecent (incandescent),

hard to face.

The truth is fabric, pick your color

and the thread and style that suits best.

There it is! See, how pretty on the model.

Trueness is a dress people like to wear

out, so that their secrets and private minds

are never seen, covered up to the crown

in the cloth of truth, ever proper and poised.

Naked truths are lies, but naked realities are

truths so far removed from the eyes of many

that to see even a hint—

a hint of realness—is far too naked

to be properly addressed.