The sycophants folly

Never before has the sycophant’s folly
Been so apparent
Social media provides the platform for idolatry
To lavish faint praise
Bend the knee for all to see
And extoll
If you squint your eye a certain way
Your leaders’ exemplary virtues.
 
Businessmen, lobbyists, advisors and supporters
Where age has no bounds
Flocking to surround
Playing at vanity and ego
Pecking away at true discourse
Pecking away at all sense of morality
Of decency and principle.
 
Uncomfortable truths be dammed
In the hope to receive
Tiny morsels and treats
To enter the hallowed inner circle
For mateship and men’s club privileges abound
No matter how briefly.
 
Do you know what this grab for money
The soulless pursuit of greed will achieve?
When those in power do not receive
The guidance that they so sorely need
Without accountability and transparency
The emperor remains oblivious of his scant clothing.
 
And at this time of crisis
The sycophant’s folly
Will ultimately be
All our bane
For who bares the true cost in our society?
The privileged haves or the invisible have nots?
With an environment in ruin
Social services run down
And hundreds of elderly dead for no reason
But incompetence
Our humanity lost in the news cycle.
 
And to our leaders
Focused on marketing and spin
Whispering sweet nothings to untrained ears
Giving away worthless glistening trinkets dazzling the eyes…
 
Let’s let them know
For it’s time to expose
That the emperor
It’s plain to see
He has quite simply
No clothes.