-- Total Transparency --

John Herlihy

A word should now be said about total transparency;

The time has come to speak up with some frequency.

A greater power lies inherent in the thinnest of veils;

To see clearly all the ramification that truth entails.

Many hide in the shaded aura of subtle subterfuge;

Traitorous liars who find in untruths a noble refuge.

Sewing fabrics of confusion and casting aspersions,

Crass insults or random threats to create diversions.

What could we expect from such levels of deception?

All the contradictions a tongue utters in such fictions.

Transparency a clear window into the world’s ways;

Subterfuge but darkening spirit in the coming days.

Subterfuge will have its day, but not its truthful hour;

When the moment arrives, we rely on truth’s power.

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(c) John Herlihy 18 August 2020