The Lying Truth

 

In a time of stretching trickery

Finding truth too slight to mention

The written or the spoken words

Bound up in mock invention

 

A story is just one more tale

With a realistic bending

Written down from made up facets

Creative chronicles upending

 

Inhabiting a novel world

Where every utterance is fiction

Bibles of conspiracy rule

Overstuffed with contradiction

 

Telling tales is our default

Betrayals nothing new

Treachery the way of change

Running rampant points of view

 

Depending on your standing

To tell a shameless lie

To mitigate you propagate

Allowing truth to pass you by

 

Based on: How Sefton Delmer became Britain's master propagandist during the Second World War. By 1931, Sefton had managed to infiltrate the Nazi machine and become Ernst Röhm's aide-de-camp.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xd7s