Smothered Undercover Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If one has never known truth.
Or what it is.
From a time to leave their crib to crawl.
To value the importance of its difference,
Between delusion.
And living this way of life,
Just to make up.
There will be future issues,
For those persuaded...
To keep truth hushed.
Smothered undercover to keep hidden,
A growing lust to tell lies.
Done to please and agree,
With one who has the ability...
And expertise to convince,
Reality is a myth.
Fool to trick anyone,
Accepting truth to disappoint...
A life to live limited to it.

Then who is it,
That will be eventually left...
Mentally equipped to trust and believe?
And who will be left,
To depend upon words they speak to hear...
Loud and clear.
Who has not been sold,
With it chosen to leave...
Truth and reality distanced from themselves.
Or quickly deny,
Having any contact with truth.
To find it meaningless to use.