A World of Rights and Wrongs

Jason Tandon

Afraid of white lies

You fessed up to everything.

The empty candy dish,

Change pilfered from your father's sock drawer.

As you learned the pleasures of the sun

Basking like a lizard on a stone,

You embellished occurrences,

Invented girls and heartaches.

Dared by your peers you peeked up

Your teacher's skirt,

Then without prodding

Fainted in school once a week.

You never could keep a secret,

Relishing the scarlet thrill

Of playing accomplice

To the murder of someone else's burden.