Jerome by Anastasia Forfotă - HTML preview

The Filter

It is so easy to tell when people lie.

But when they tell the truth

which words survive?

It is not unlike the tale of the snake in the river.

The serpent slithers

and spits its venom,

whoever drinks the water dies,

and yet you never know

whether it's the poison or the medicine inside,

as the snake is subtle and duplicit,

and whether the deaths were of murder

or of dread

- it never is explicit.