Sugar lies,
Swearing it can satisfy,
When it cannot.
And we,
Believing the lie,
Eat more and more
In pursuit of the dream,
Until we are sick from it—
Perhaps in the near term,
But certainly in the long.
And so it goes.
And some learn
While others do not.
But for those who do,
Sugar serves
As an apt symbol
For a hundred other
Deceivers who cannot
Keep their promises, either.
