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Polite White Lies of Omission

Kindness is a good policy.

e all like a reaction

but we don't always go for it.

sometimes it's nicer

to just leave it be.

it may seem like inaction

but you have more to show for it.

if you'd hear my advice,

then take heed.

a little less truth

can sometimes improve things

when the truth would just sour

consider silence's power.

we sync up, regain traction,

for deeper truths, together we scour

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