Author’s Note: Oscar Wilde said “A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — but what if cynics see the world as it really is..?
If real truth has a cynic’s ring,
We’re guilty of the charge;
There’s strings attached to everything,
In the real world at large.
We know false value has a price,
Especially when sold;
We throw the dice for a large slice,
Of pyrite or fool’s gold.
We know true value’s snuffed at birth,
In this flawed world we’ve made;
But on this Earth, things of real worth,
Require no money paid.
If cynicism is the truth,
It says how real things are;
And the truth we’ve been sold since youth,
Is fiction gone too far.
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