REPUTATION

What is acquired gradually
Can be Lost so easily

It can be carefully cultivated
Becoming swaddled with flam
Precision engineered
Where everything goes to plan
Sugar covered and baseless underneath
Your retinue expands
The web of knowledgeable deceit you weave
Makes life sweet and you see no defeat

The wind of change
Can blow in as a storm
Its wholesome destruction
A mesmerising theatre
Where plans become aborted
As the mob comes a calling
A Rising star is dislodged
By those who can only love temporarily

Hypocrisy slays so easily
No one remembers the good old days
When they welcomed you lovingly
No one remembers how they turned a blind eye
When you acted so selfishly
No one remembers
Their complicity

Faith in you is now a faded memory
As condemnation explodes
Your self-created bubble
Where public disgrace is now your lasting legacy
Shame on you