Facades of Honor

When men become idols For coaching winning teams, We shroud them in cloaks of integrity Or so, at times, it seems We erect facades of honor Feeling that they can do no wrong And they start to believe in this themselves When the idolization goes on too long When the facades start to crack As facades are apt to do We are shocked when their mortality Through the cloak starts to shine through Worshippers will stoop to any means To get their hero off the hook Making out the idol as the victim While the real victims get overlooked And those who deserve our sympathy Continue to suffer in their private hell Being made to feel like blasphemers For the story they tried to tell