Sugar-coated*
Good old sugar
Age-old deceiver
Covering up bitter
In a sleek coat duster
Hence all coats are shady
Just because some cores are bitter
And we commit yet another
Who’s to say
It can’t be sweet all the way
Does candy not too
Have a coat of the same
And so we throw our bullets at pure sugar
Oh, tooth decay and diabetes
Shit
The coat is just as awful as its core
No matter coat or core
No matter truthful or not
We berate sugar and forget
It is us children
Who couldn’t handle bitter pills
Without sweet incentives
It is us children who refuse fair deals
It is us children who say
We don’t want no bland or bitter
We don’t want it unless
It’s dripping in sugar
Now we’ve grown up
And for some reason
Sugar is always suspicious
So we’re going to shatter every candy we see
To avoid being deceived
Indeed there is bland and bitter
Among the sugary mess
But it’s not like we want to swallow them full
It still tastes awful after all
Besides
We don’t care about small truths
We want to crack those least suspicious
Too good to be true
Is the new evidence
And so we end up with a sea of sugary sand
Ground up and tortured
Monosaccharides
Weeping in a puddle of naked.
Classic
Collateral damage
Now why would anyone bother be sweet at core
If all that’s going to happen
Is blanket distrust
Impossible to restore
Truth is truth
Sweet, bitter, bland
Or anything in between
If we’re going to assess truth
On how well it complies with artificial characteristics
Do we actually care about
Truth as it is