I told Tyler
“When the ice cream truck makes music
it means they are out of ice cream.”
Guilt overcame me So I called him to the kitchen table
and told him that wasn’t truth.
My son asked,
“Why did you do that to me Dad?”
I said it would introduce distrust
to prepare him to cope in the real world.
But this was my bigger lie,
It really tore the fabric of his innocence,
the very essence of the beauty
we so love in our children.
-Jerry Wendt 2017
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