A POEM BY: BEN DUNK. SEPT 4, 2010

THE LIE

The lie glibly rolled off the tongue                                       

And flew out side into the open                                             

Where it connected quickly with some                                   

Who embellished it worse there-upon                                         

Then the fresh lie spun out of control                                     

Passing from one to another free                                          

And reaching swiftly from pole to pole                                 

Until maximum hyperbole                                                       

It imprisoned some people falsely

Gave some very bad reputations

Made friends treat one another harshly

And confirmed unjust imputations

So do wretched evil blatant liars

Take fake talk secretly to their grave

Hide it in the thickest brambly briars

Leaving their worst curses on the brave

Judges accept lies and adjudicate

Rolling eyes against munificence

Contradict evidence authenticate

So juries convict the innocents

Politicians lie on the stumps

They dream up their superlative views

Conning the believer into jumps

And deliver pork under their shoes

Police sometimes do distort the facts

Cover up favours for a criminal

Change evidence by nefarious acts

And present cases subliminal

Spouses lie to cover up their tracks

Concealing their infidelities

When lying prone on their face and backs

Circumventing true identities

Pulp and airwave news reporters lie

When opportunism is there to try

Plagiarism is fain to embody

And the reader seldom knows the fie

The loose lie roamed around and then spread

And over many years developed

Generating circumstances dead

And causing truth to be enveloped

There are the poor-tragic receivers

Spending their dark days in maladies

Living lives of under achievers

Ashamed of their untrue parodies

They exist on memories miss-said

Created and applied to be cruel

Suffering from words unjustly read

The liar’s victimization fuel

Falsehoods accumulate and then fester

Malfeasance stays in mind forever

Misrepresented facts they pester

Life and freedom suffer together

The whole truth is a wonderful thing

Research, interpret and verify

It outclasses every cruel sting

Let the world know and exemplify