who needs to listen

[fledgist]

 words being said in this open debate

frustrate our thought it's not that they are lies

nor traps and gluepots that we might devise

for maximum confusion of the great

and not so clever who would pass the gate

to make themselves seem honest to our eyes

for a short season till they get the prize

and can then smile unburdened by all freight

there is much honour in sticking to fact

in simple truthful measuring of all

that needs be said before the earnest crowd

but yet the ones who think silence is tact

and fail to understand the urgent call

are those with greatest need to hear things loud