The Prompt:What have you done that no one knows about, or what are you afraid of exposing about yourself?

Necessary Untruths

A game of hide-and-seek
not behind chairs or under tables
within thickets or crouched in deep culverts
but obscured between sharp truths.
That white lie
you tell yourself
just to keep going.

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