I’ve heard it said, that telling the truth will set you free, <br />But when I’ve taken this plan of action before, <br />It didn’t rest that comfortably, on me. <br /> <br />It had stung the person spoken to, <br />And the wrath of such was then hard for me to bear, <br />I guess I should have weighed my words out better, <br />But I didn’t think, that they would really care. <br /> <br />“Open mouth, inser foot, ” <br />Is, I guess what I had done, <br />Now I must pay my now misfortunes price, <br />In this web of painful wording I had flung. <br /> <br />For if the truth be now spoken, <br />I don’t think I would ever take back one word, <br />For it was only in the way received that was wrong, <br />Of the words spoken they felt they’d heard. <br /> <br />To stand and defend my rights of freedom, <br />Seems senseless to me at best, <br />It was just something that I felt needed saying, <br />Something I just had to get off of my chest. <br /> <br />By: Linda Winchell <br />Copyright: 2009<br /><br />Linda Winchell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-truth-shall-set-you-free-2/
