Pretending Not

Pretending Not 

Would like to ask a question from my friends.
Why shouldn't one speak one's mind? 
What's in one's mind one's heart one's soul
Why should one express not what's in one's mind! 
Why pretend must one!?
One that knows not, the meaning of pretending.
Why would one resist, in speaking the truth not, as one sees it
The truth I've spoken all my life welcoming, not by those that know not
The meaning when one speaks the truth, suffering fools not
In certain quarters, they crucify you if you speak your mind
It's not the thing one should do, speaking the truth...
They abandon you when one's mind, we must not speak
It's not the way to live through if ones speak one's mind
Unbecoming of you...
Hurting, my mind my heart knowing that you care not,
Pretending you see I do not, pretending it's not in me
What you see it's what you get,
It's inherently in me speaking my mind, can't you see!
It boggles my mind that strangely you find, me speaking my mind
When everyone else expects me to speak not my mind! The truth
An impossibility you know, that's the only way I know
If you can not be there for me, whether I speak my mind or not
Intermittently...Or not, I must speak.

                               By Connie James