Deception is like having a really good frosting on a bad cake. It’s only after you’ve had that first bite that you realize the truth!
I see the shine, but know the truth is undermined
I hear the glory and love in feeling’s expression
And see the knowledge of failure and deception
But, how can the true depth be seen
When the surface is designed to deceive
The true vision of the monster’s goal
Is to feast on innocence and ignorance
As its aim in meaning’s disguise
And the image of love’s embrace
Is not the same as what is said and done
Truth deceived and hidden in evil’s control
Heavy hands strangling the soul of substance
With deceptive minds
Manipulating the heart
Under the heel of oppression’s foot
Here is yet another nightmare returning
From tyranny hiding its cruel deeds
Beneath chosen words used to deceive
And blind the mind
Made sightless in feeling’s will
So how do I see through the veil
Of the false image brought and shaped
To capture and manipulate
What is beyond the doorway of feelings
Blocked with malicious intent of the trapper’s will
To capture and kill
What is inside
The integrity of good will
As deceptions of intent
Grips its meaning
Common sense captured and distorted
Content lost and Reason plundered
In Power’s certainty
So off the edge of hope it goes
Again, to fall into the pit of deception
To begin again to struggle with tyranny’s lies
But first, freedom of thought that is true must die
And awaken to another storm of soul
Suffering to survive
From yet another death under tyranny’s lie
Even the common voice is muffled
Scattered in the storm of deception’s skills
As I and we drown again
In complacent ignorance and broken truth
It is a repeat of another story’s ending
In Liberty’s circle
With life and death of all
A broken trust lost in destiny’s will
Leaving another emptiness of words
To fill.