threaten to awaken the masses
to the fact
that
actually
no one
ever
told the emperor
he had no clothes
he paraded by his subjects
everyone saw a fat fool duped by a con
sold an invisible suit
After the Emperor changed outfits
the citizens all pretended
the day never happened
They
secretly
quietly
told jokes
the emperor's humiliation
crept into the story teller's tales
the emperorer secretly loved the invisible suit
joked to his queen
he wore it to bed
every warm night in the summer
content in his smug knowledge
that truth was whatever the hell
he told his subjects
that he could walk naked
among them
say
he was wearing an invisible suit
and there was not one among them
who dared challenge Him
two generations later
the monarchy was cut down
by the sons of the sons
of the story tellers
the Royal became the buffoons of an illicit press
paying their rich asses taxes seemed absurd
to the poverty struck crowds
for a few generations the Truth was LOUD
One war threatening day secrecy once more dropped
over the land
like Truths own death shroud
like Truths own death shroud
dictator this time
so-called socialist
a bureaucratic mouse maze so-called socialist
of the corrupt
underpaid
above the law
Cult keepers
Military Order Takers
religiously addled
fighting for free will which will do for a soul in this life
deals with little demons to let them think for you
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