Decaying Of Deception Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A mess planted to start,
In one's own backyard to implement.
Has to be first admitted done.
With a confessing of being responsible,
For allowing to spill over...
To next door.
Then throughout the neighbor.
Without making accusations.
Attempting to place blame to claim,
On others who came to volunteer,
To assist and prevent...
One's dirty laundry,
From spreading to smell and stink up...
The entire atmosphere.
With kept pretensions and denial.
That could have ended,
A charaded masquerade decades ago.
Decaying slowly of deception.
Too long covered up,
Under lies told to tell to eventually...
Discover its origin and creator,
Of the stench!