The Naked Shadows Inside Her Dress

When the truth is spoken, we don't know 

Where to look, as if we only know someone 

Has gotten away with something big 

Or stolen someone's heart, knowing how easy 

It was, how fragile, how true to itself 

So open and weightless, without guile 

Or only a glance was stolen, the naked shadows 

Inside her dress, thinking we could only 

Afford to look at reality for a moment 

Before going blind, as if it were the sun 

And she was the one, the only 

Reality staring us right in the face 

When it was so much easier, we thought 

We believed 

To look the other way