Poems Primarily Narrative (or not)

Deception

Just noodling and this bit popped out. No excuses.

It was a gathering of diplomats and some lower level bureaucrats

happily celebrating all their recent secrecies

The unexpected meeting started with a pleasant greeting

and memory scrambling, you used your diplomatic courtesies

Exuding bonhomie, obfuscating things you see

they ingratiate with long and practiced ease

Probing comments as a guise so as not to trigger rise

to the purpose they're seeking hard to please

Reactions surveyed as they operate, gauging opinions made less obdurate

whilst applying that firm congenial squeeze

Interest feigned in things you'd said, an easy entry to your head

to gain your knowledge which they covet, and soon made you release

When they had what they desired all interest did recede

finding no further reason to appease

Used by them to foster gain their demeanor hints disdain

and the temperature had cooled several degrees

Using methods they'd inspired, your mind no longer is required

and the friendships all suddenly surcease

When revelations hit the news of covert facts making previews

you realized you were the source of the release

And as they walked me to the gallows, I recalled those friendly fellows,

how their deception had brought me to my knees