Soothing Illusions
https://poems.culturing.net/2026/10/15/soothing-illusions/
You won't feel a thing.
Everything is going to be okay.
There is a class of statements
that we only say when they are false,
because they are false. They are soothing
illusions, designed to counterbalance
uncomfortable truths. Beware the soothing
of silver-tongued manipulators! Don't
let their false be your true. But
we need some illusions to survive here.
We simply can't swallow all truths.