Another thank you to Editor Mark Antony Rossi for publishing "Counterfeit" in Ariel Chart.


http://arielchart.blogspot.com/2018/08/counterfeit.html

Counterfeit

Much deceit and bluff 

spoken 

with misleading lips.  

Your rumors so vague

cryptic words inside unfathomable sham

your translation shrouding truth like a plague.

Whispers that twist and stain 

without being spoken aloud  

never becoming anything other than lies faintly sung

in low tones 

weakly plied against those you don’t love.