LIE AND TRUTH

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Extremely powerful is Lie
It makes the innocent cry
It gives harmony to the hypocrite
And makes the upright a counterfeit
It is the motor of every delusion
It gives a bad politician his ambition
To the swindler it gives insight
It is the murderer's foresight
It gives the lazy some hints
His excuses are under its tints
The thief dines in its house
It protects the unfaithful spouse
The bell of conspiracy it rings
It gives the gossip wings
To move faster than the speed of light
Yet there is something of swifter flight
It waits many years in silence
Lie does not repent and hence
It takes its flight in just one day
And overtakes Lie on the way
Truth is bitter to the victims of Lie
But it's extremely more powerful than Lie

(c) Juwon Osanipin

An excerpt from my book, "LIFE" (A collection of poems in facts)

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