being honest

being honest

if I were the least bit
honest 
I would lie to you
tell you everything 
is going to be okay 
that we will get through this
you and me
that one day we’ll look back
and laugh at how silly it was
for us to worry
I would tell you this
and more because
it’s what you need 
to hear most right now
but
i’m not honest, not one bit
the truth of the matter
not that it matters
is that I’m terrified 
this might not end well
for you, for us…
we just don’t need dishonesty 
when we’re hanging by a thread

~kat

NaPoWriMo2023 Challenge Day Sixteen: Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like.