As far as the eye could see, the deceit stretched only farther <br />It was self-perpetuating, gaining in magnitude, always thicker <br />Yet never slowing, flowing over the plains, through mountains, flooding valleys <br />It seems a man kept some on his shelf, just a little, watered-down, at his disposal <br />He used it here and there, to patch holes in his house, and fix broken handshakes <br />Such foolishness, for deceit draws unto it deceit, and all mending came undone <br />As all the patches and seals flowed one into the other and grew until <br />As far as the eye could see, the deceit stretched only farther <br /> <br />(April 7,2003)<br /><br />David Lovell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-far-as-the-eye-could-see/
