'Guarding Their Little Secrets For As Long As Possible Poem by Margaret Alice

A brilliant speaker entertained us with a
scintillating speech indicating how false
interpreting lead to distorted information
in evidence in court

The audience laughed and all applauded, afterwards
the speaker in most audacious manner claimed his
travelling costs as promised by the Department
on inviting him

Suddenly the joy began to fade, his claim was
never processed, when cornering an official,
she happily explained, we can't find his
banking details

So his claim was just ignored, though the
information had been sent officially on a
form all signed and stamped, they still
managed to lose it

Specializing in mislaying all important forms,
then guarding their little secrets for as long
as possible!