The truth can be complicated

The smiles and the laughs

Are they genuine or fabricated?

Or am I just being daft?

Everyone constantly judges

They’ll have secret misinterpretations

They will hold onto a grudge

When you had the best intentions

Hating you for what you said

When they don’t let it show

Fake niceness filling you with dread

Suddenly you really don’t know

Are they a true friend or not?

Am I foolish to tell them my heart?

Maybe I should just stop

Before I get torn apart

Careful on every word, every sentence

Careful not to get bitten in the back

Never feeling any acceptance

Wary of any possible attack

It hurts until you feel all alone

Even when you’re surrounded

You’re tired down to the bone

And you think of all the ‘what ifs’

What if it wasn’t this way?

What if we just said something

When we take offense, they simply change

And it’s not ever unbecoming

What if we could just trust our friends?

Holding my true self and only wanting that

No need to analyze again and again

They’ll listen and they’ll understand

What if we hoped for each other?

And we let the genuine truth shine through?

We told when we didn’t like something

And the sky would look so blue

The clouds would disappear

The whole world would be lit anew

With no need to fear

And the sun would light all for you

Because you’re right here

Because we’re sincere

We will persevere

And the sky had never looked so blue