Machevellian Moves

You work all your life
Trying to avoid another's knife
For they will try it on
And then be gone

To scheme and to plan
To make them grand
But just telling the truth
And they will retreat saying 'struth!

© Paul Warren Poetry
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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