Misshapen Words

The quote is from JOHN ADAMS, 2nd US President, born 1735 died 1826.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry (misleading) and chicanery (using trickery) of party, faction and the division of society.

MISSHAPEN WORDS

I can hear the words you say

That you thought were so tightly veiled

Your hidden implications

Defy the true details

Words twisted into meanings

Meant to sell your devious schemes

And only we who know the truth

Understand your carefully hidden dreams

Too many politicians

Who once had good intentions

Are spoiled by the lure of ill gotten gains

And are spoiled beyond redemption

Then in a country filled with trusting apathetics

Well painted lies become the chosen decor

And the lawmaker's seats remain taken

By all those sitting there before

Misshapen words are meant to lure us

Into a socialistic web of deceit

Until our own factions are divided

Ripe for our defeat

No idealistic new blood

No patriots with a righteous cause

Can overtake the established lion

And his greedy, deadly claws