Truth Is A Lie
Misery is a singular
experience
not to be confused
with miserable,
for those who are
miserable are
the unfortunates
whose open eyes
remain blind to the
bright side.
Misery is possession,
occupancy by a
doppelgänger,
who goes everywhere
in your stead,
who smiles at
parties, chats lightly,
and responds gaily
when met.
The possessed know
there can never be
light at the end
of their ever-narrowing
tunnel,
know that the truth
that there is
always a light is in
truth a lie.
Anthony Wade
Anthony Wade, a
Forward Prize nominee, is a graduate lawyer with a Master’s Degree, an Irish
national educated in England who also worked in The Netherlands. He has
published poems in Ariel Chart, Borderless, Boyne
Berries, Drawn To The Light, Dreich, Green
Ink, MonthsToYears, Lakeview International Literary
Journal, Scrittura Magazine, Setu Bilingual Journal, Strands
Lit Sphere, Tiny Seeds and The Dawntreader. He
received a Highly Commended in the Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award 2018. He
now lives by the sea in East Cork and is an active member of the Midleton
Writers’ Group.