Her silence wasn't gold

It was a shark

with deep canines

screaming agony

at every invisible pain

She fed on other's joy

and tasted all evils

called herself "Vera"; 

The Truth

But she was a lie

a living factoid

a controversy

an oxymoron

She was naive

but she tried not to be

Oh, didn't she?

She was tired of pretending

but she went with the flow

after all sharks do so

instead of crossing waves

and creating mountains

Nothing extraordinary.

Just Vera.

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©VioletEden

27thFebruary2017