Verbal Legerdemain

In spite of everything, articulated flimflam, sophistry, chicanery exists.
That artifice damages relationships beyond the point of repair.

I.e., skillfully using one’s terms to deceive friends, family, strangers
Rots as fully as sprinkling arsenic in community water systems.

Consider that semantic prestidigitation can cause heartache unlike
Any other form of abuse, alienation, or abandonment.

Skullduggery wrought by double-dealing in adjectives brings
Suffering to all associations touched by its clout.

Such “cunning,” such “wizardry” impacts not only
Loved ones but, equally, unfamiliar persons.

Cogitate that dissimulation via nouns can set off
The most horrible sorts of disagreements.

Also, conjuring suasory trickery results in
A bitter kind of resentment that kills.

Overall, words’ deceptions, their illusions,
Cull the worst human anguish.