Faces

The chosen one with a classified MISSION; "At all cost" is the secretive AMBITION: He prowls the streets with a sharp DAGGER; An assassin with a smooth SWAGGER; The Lion's claws concealed in gestures of KINDNESS; He captures the victim with emotive methods of BLINDNESS; Specialised in the art of maskin a FACE; An agenda articulated with pure GRACE; Known for uttering soothing WORDS; Like the harmonic sounds of comforting BIRDS; To the victim, "what a FRIEND"; To the gossip hungry, "a means to an END"; In realization, don't be SHAKEN; In the end, he will be FORSAKEN; The Truth of fact, call it LIFE; How can one see those with a KNIFE?; In the circle of existence, Sincerity is a BLISS And bitter resentment most DISMISS; In the dawn of maturity we grow WISE; Now you've seen some have a DISGUISE; The journey of life has surely GROWN; All that is required is a BACKBONE; Beware of those that STAGGER; Call them the BACKSTABBERS.     H.F.