the smedley log - suburban scrawl

no

answers that please are
easy, but sometimes it’s best
to take the hard way.

pleasing is not all
it is cracked up to be
more is less it seems

Painless Mirages
are contradictions in terms.
Masking makes things worse.

to fool another
with easy answers cheapens
credibility

but to fool yourself,
even with strong desire,
will cheapen the soul

but when empathy
drives you, ignoring the pain
of others is hard.