An infomania infused

with mythomania, 

as lines are blurred

by yielders to temptation,

ready to concoct, distort

any narrative, while

playing willy-nilly gods,

in a scramble for verisimilitude

that always seduces,

yet produces little

more than manicured falsehoods.

 

And the truth doesn't

get any younger;

it ossifies,

untold and forlorn,

a casualty of casuistry,

vying for the vengeance

of its validity,

unheeded yet whispered

by fools who forewarned...