True That

To say that a lie is not the truth

Is to state an obvious fact,

A lie is a lie and truth is truth.

Why everyone should see that.

But such is not the case

And I must confess that I’m amazed

And even sometimes dazed

When I consider the current craze.

There are some who dare to argue

That truth is a relative lot

Whereupon in my confessed stupor

I enquire relative or family to what?

There was a time not long ago

When baffled by the truth

We went all out to prove it so

By citing an abundance of proof.

Today of course it’s the other way

We now even have alternative facts

And the mere fact I cannot see that

There must be something I lack.

Nowadays we go all out

To prove a lie is anything but a lie

Exchanging truth for something else

And then that truth defy.

There is an apparent evolution

When a lie evolves into a truth,

They call it convincing advertising

You see this at many a booth.

If a lie is propagated as the truth

Particularly by persons of integrity

The masses will accept it as truth

And perpetuate its longevity.

Personal agendas that are hidden

Depend on alternative facts

Where a lie replaces the truth

And security becomes the trap.

  

I invite you to answer the question,

To what is the truth relative?

If the answer is the family of lies

Then life is a deceptive narrative.

In truth the two are worlds apart

Like darkness and the light

And while the former covers up the lie

The latter vindicates the right.

The minutest contaminant in truth

Would render that truth a lie,

Hence no relativity between the two

No matter what the objectors imply.

Stewart Russell © 2017