The Funeral: Creative Platypus

The Funeral

Let us now speak of those things
we do not speak of.
Let there be five-minutes' honesty
in this family.

We shall speak all the good we did not
say
because we were offended,
or because it hurt too much to temper
evil
or offer it the slightest justification.

Let us speak the evil we do not speak
because it is always the understood
foundation
of all our interactions;
Banquo's ghost at every Thanksgiving
meal.

Let us dare to make confession
before the Dead
and this casket be a holy altar
where only family may sing
to one who knows the place beyond
us
where no shadows fall.

For we are family,
and we will have
Five-minutes' honesty
At this time or never.