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There is the woman and then there is your impression of her

There is her face and then there is your memory of it And which is better? art or nature?

Truth or fiction? honesty or sweet pretty lies?

There is music, and then there is your careful study of it There is your love and then there is your love poetry

And which is better? truth or fiction?

Science or religion? honesty or sweet pretty lies?

I’ll restore your pride through my humility

I’ll restore your beauty through my blindness

I’ll grant you authority through my obedience

It doesn’t matter who you are

Because what is in my mind is stronger than what is There is what happens and then there are history books

There are events and then there is the nightly news

And which is better? myth or confusion?

Fact or invention? reality or sweet pretty lies?

There is the woman and then there is her biography

There are her actions and then there are her charming stories

And which is better? faith or despair?

Heros or disappointments? the sad truth or the uplifting mythology?

Your picture’s faded, your grave untended

I can’t recall your voice or what you said

Yet your sainthood increases the longer you’re dead

It doesn’t matter what you’ve done

My invention of you will last longer than your flaws

The subject of this portrait has quit the scene

This account is third-hand, based on a book

By a narrator who can’t be trusted

So then what do we believe?

When the truth is as elusive as it is irrelevant?

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