Halie Ward - truth...

when the truth is ugly,
people try to keep it hidden
because they know if revealed,
the damage it will do,
so they conceal it within sturdy walls,
or they place it behind closed doors,
or they obscure it with clever disguises;
but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges,
and someone we care about
always ends up getting hurt,
and someone else will reveal their pain,
and that's the ugliest truth of all

Halie Ward

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/truth-53/