Objective

In open session state your case,
As reward for honesty awaits,
Objective we have sworn to be,
But interpretation is the key

See the subject cannot comprehend,
Reasoning turned on its end,
Where eloquent turns of phrase,
See swiftly your fall-back erased

One can't be too careful or too smart,
When incrimination is elevated to art,
You acknowledge your crime for fear silence shall proffer,
More than you could call reason or offer

And that is the catch and the trap that is laid,
The carrot of clarity merely charade,
The stick that the honest have nothing to hide,
Is wielded and twisted like a surgeon's knife