the scent of paradise

 so much is said by those who have to speak

in doubled phrases and in words which bite

so deeply that our hearts lose their delight

and all is darkness life becomes so bleak

all hope is lost in getting what we seek

and every choice leads only into blight

this sort of magic turns high noon to night

leaving us all dispirited and weak

what's absent here is just the honest word

uttered by decent souls who know that kind

regard goes further than law's formal writ

but what we have is odourific turd

showing its presence even to the blind

making it clear that all are in the shit