Protection from Deception

What we need is protection from deception.

Yet we mock the wisdom forged by greater fires

Children prove their parents to be liars

Then wander in different directions

Ending up in darker places

Not quite sure about what faith is.

Or where on Earth their place is.

So they draw from their perceptions

On how to build protection from deception.

They would love to wield a mighty shield

But they simply do not have the steel

That is forged by rejection and correction.

With limited time in life’s game they play

With a immature substance soft as clay

No match for weapons of today

or yesterday

So they use the clay to change their complexions.

Hiding all their imperfections

Fighting lies with yet another

Until we soon discover

The Devil hides in the details of our reflections.

Funny how we become what we hate

Be mindful of what you use to create

Your very soul may be at stake

What we need is protection from deception.