What's the price

Of living a lie?
Should it be less

Than uncomfortable truth?

Whispers and awkward stares

Words shooting venom

Jaws clamping down

Devouring lifeless prey

Just another day

Exposed and vulnerable

Targeted by predators

And the elements

Forfeiting protection

Sacrificing comfort

Burying honesty deep

Beneath a well of insanity

How many dollars and cents

Equate to denial of sense?