Honesty

Information saturation,

Overload… Overload.

What to think… who to believe.

Which can to kick down a dusty road.

 

When did sincerity morph into whimsy?

Where was integrity banished to hide?

How can I sort through the flotsam encountered

While taming the beast in life’s carnival ride?

 

Truth is the pillar, the mainstay, the

Linchpin of human morality and intervention.

When honesty waivers it dies of corruption

Til trust is destroyed beyond all recognition.

 

And we are the weavers,

The guardians of truth,

The prim and the pious who spearhead the way.

We cannot cede or renounce our position

Lest devastation conquers the day.

 

And when in the end we come back to the fold

Where laughter and logic abound,

It’s honesty’s voice that gives us the choice

To speak out without making a sound.