TRUTH’S
STRIP-TEASE
K. B. Sitaramayya
Some cannot stand
Truth’s strip-tease-
her
casting aside
hypocrisy’s robes
she has donned
for ages now,
the heavy burden
of the past.
How long
can she hide
her glory
from the eyes
that long to delight in
or
bear to see
their woeful sighs?
At the turn
of the century
some hope at
at long last
for the vision
splendid and the bliss
they for ages
were forced to miss.