Facade

Halfway through learning life you find therein the games Played by the oblivious and those who made names Then your simplicity in view begins being challenged As make believe is by hard facts rearranged That society is both with and without bearing For the old warmongering and peace brokering Continue on side by side Each taking turns at being follower and guide And since good and evil formidably are frontiers Furnishing many men with careers Many men have become showmen Obliviously courting omen They play for whoever pays the pipers Be they a flock or a brood of vipers For only to themselves are they loyal And money is their hearts’ royal And they call their desertion a sacrifice Though it be a cunningly justified compromise And all these the young wait to ruthlessly learn As we still claim to fight a brighter day to earn K. Muitherero