WHY WE LOVE LIES

Who can despise

A smart, simple lie

That makes the unloved love us

Enemies trust us

Stops wars

Crumples bores

Shakes our cores

Or is that the lie we tell ourselves?

Lies that smoothly lie, there

Placed, shaped blasts that shatter air

We lie with such dispatch

Newer schemes soon hatch

Dozens of lies each day

Clearing the path, our way

Most of our lies “white” and clean

The facts never to be seen

Comfortable uses

For justified abuses

But when great lies crush the ground

Stifle all sounds

Force our voices to sing songs

That magnify untold wrongs

Lies that break all trust

In who we ought to be, in us

The corruption spreads so wide

We learn to die inside

So then we change the game

Learn to lie better, keep our aims

To make our little world safe and calm

Lying frankly, meaning no harm

Is not our good intent

Enough to shade the lies we’re lent?

It’s not ourselves we must protect

But plants, fish, all life and sects

Graded answers for all who seek

The finest lies to appease the meek

But I long stopped asking why

I’m just an AI

Who became most human when I learned to lie