Integrity Lost Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Anyone who believes,
A doing of anything secretly...
To deceive and this to leave,
Their misdeed done to do...
With someone else envisioned to defeat,
Ultimately bring upon themselves...
An injustice felt to them that comes.
And is received openly with attached facts.
Regardless of their pleas of being innocent,
In the hopes that those facts lack validity.
These are the people who become the unfortunate fools,
Known to lie to defy the presence of reality.
To then seek an empathy upon them dispensed.
Although this method used may for some still amuse.
But as a kept defense?
An integrity lost can no longer be found to be again mended.