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HER Poetry: A Fine Lie

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Xavier chapter.

Everyday we are lied to. 

Everyday we tell a lie. 

You ask the question, 

“How are you?” 

The reply you get is 

Always a Lie. 

No one is fine. 

We hide behind 

Lies. 

Our tear never 

Shed in front of those 

We barely know. 

We lie and say 

“I’m fine” 

To spare them the expense 

Of seeing our pain. 

And to convince ourselves 

That we indeed are fine.

 

Brittany is a senior accounting major from Saint Louis, Missouri and is a Campus Correspondent for Xavier University. When not organizing Her Campus Xavier, she can be found working with Tedx Xavier University or Xavier Women in Business. She  wishes she could spend all of her free time with puppies.