I search within
And more I know
That strange I am
The more I grow
If I should wince
Or beg to try
To overlook
Then I would lie
Now I am sure
That habit's mode
Has turned me off
the righteous road.
Though when I lie
I lie in soul -
An actor's heart
I live my role
If I be false
then I be true
to recognize
the falseness, too.
A. Sexton
