O what a tangled web we weave <br />When we choose to deceive <br />Or to be deceived <br />We need to realise that we receive <br />What we as ordinary mortals choose to give <br />Let us not, therefore, live <br />In a state of blissful ignorance <br />Of the rest of the world and its tolerance <br /> <br />Just yesterday you did loudly cry <br />That to her letter you did not reply <br />So now you need to explain why <br />The problem has been raised to the sky <br />If only you had been frank and told the truth <br />You would have spared yourself and Ruth <br />All the pain and the disharmony <br />Including having to face so much ignominy <br /> <br />Her paranoid father and ruthless brother <br />Taunting you and your poor harried mother <br />About the love letter that you wrote to her <br />Such emotional outpourings are best kept verbal <br />Since the written word is considered immoral <br />Remember that in our hypocritical society <br />It is only the high and mighty <br />Who can get away with just anything <br />While lesser mortals like you will always feel the sting <br />Of the shame that even innocuous actions can bring<br /><br />Sandra Martyres<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/entangled/
