Hits

 Stripping

Off the scraps

Of sugar

Being truthful

Is the only 

Way to authenticity

And honesty

With the deity

How many lies

Have I told you

We have this 

Conversation

Too often

It seems

Getting real

Is costing me

Sleep and sanity

Forty

The year

Life decided

To teach me

When to take

The hits

And when

To give them back