Un-truth Poetry Prompt

What You Knew Growing Up

The un-truth is what you grow up knowing.

What they tell you

from the day you're born.

The small one's and big one's 

from people to places to

"if you make that face long enough,

it'll stay that way forever".

One's that you learn in school;

"Step on a crack,

break your mother's back" and

"The pool is on the third floor".

The un-truth is what you know growing up.

And when you figure out

that what you thought to be true is in fact,

un-true,

you are upset that

you actually believed it.

Yet you grow older

and have your own family and

raise your own children

on the un-truths

that you knew growing up.