Just noodling and this bit popped out. No excuses.
It was a gathering of diplomats and some lower level bureaucrats
happily celebrating all their recent secrecies
The unexpected meeting started with a pleasant greeting
and memory scrambling, you used your diplomatic courtesies
Exuding bonhomie, obfuscating things you see
they ingratiate with long and practiced ease
Probing comments as a guise so as not to trigger rise
to the purpose they're seeking hard to please
Reactions surveyed as they operate, gauging opinions made less obdurate
whilst applying that firm congenial squeeze
Interest feigned in things you'd said, an easy entry to your head
to gain your knowledge which they covet, and soon made you release
When they had what they desired all interest did recede
finding no further reason to appease
Used by them to foster gain their demeanor hints disdain
and the temperature had cooled several degrees
Using methods they'd inspired, your mind no longer is required
and the friendships all suddenly surcease
When revelations hit the news of covert facts making previews
you realized you were the source of the release
And as they walked me to the gallows, I recalled those friendly fellows,
how their deception had brought me to my knees
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Poems Primarily Narrative (or not)
PoetryFIRST PLACE COFFEE AFTER DARK WRITING CONTEST - JULY 2020 This collection has no particular category or message. They are errant thoughts and observations on various subjects. If interested, I hope you find some you enjoy.