Gwendolyn Brooks:Truth

And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,
Shall we not fear him
After so lengthy a
Session with shade?

Though we have wept for him,
Though we have prayed
All through the night-years—
What if we wake one shimmering morning to
Hear the fierce hammering
Of his firm knuckles
Hard on the door?

Shall we not shudder?—
Shall we not flee
Into the shelter, the dear thick shelter
Of the familiar
Propitious haze?

Sweet is it, sweet is it
To sleep in the coolness
Of snug unawareness.

The dark hangs heavily
Over the eyes.

This poem is saying that we have always long for the truth to be told for a long time for all different types of situations.  For if the truth comes,  how shall we handle it, how will we handle it?  It makes me wonder since we are always asking people to tell the truth , do we really want the truth? I say this because once it comes, it sometimes makes people unhappy and after they have not know the truth for such a long time. We even have times that we are praying that the truth is revealed  but when it comes it comes so hard making a person uncomfortable or even sad.  When it mentions  “Shall we not shudder?- Shall we not flee, it is saying that we probably should not always go looking for the truth because it can really drain you.  This poem uses a whole lot of metaphors and connotations to describe how the truth can not be so pleasant all the time causing a lot of dismay in peoples lives.