Anything

They got you to react after you stayed silent

Then painted the pain they put you through as your own violence

A struggle to fit their disguise

Tears turned into alibis

Because you showed what they put you through

And it came out in honest expression true

They are deceitful, hiding their own violence

While accusing you of what they’ve built in silence

Anything to get a person up on that cross

Anything to persecute and have another at a loss

Even if they have to make it up altogether, they will

Anything to justify dying on that hill

Anything to corroborate the "proof" that is true

A lie amongst thieves with malice imbued

Anger burns hot when reality breaks through

They envy your clarity, your bond with what's true

Backing you into a corner

Coercion, forcing

You step back, hands up

Here they come

Closing in, around your wrist a tightening grip

Words like knives they make you slip

Each step a threat, each breath a lie

You feel the heat

No place to hide

Until you blow

That's what they show

That's all the outside world will know

They raped your mind, your body, soul

And then your story they took control

They cried wolf, benefits off the name

Bathed in your suffering

It was a part of their game

The perpetrator told the story now

The predator told the story now

The enabler told the story now

The abuser is the victim now

So the people look at you now

Soooo, they abused you how?

Soooo, they gaslighted you how?

Soooo, they used your kindness how?

Soooo, they feed us lies how?

Soooo, they made you doubt how?

Soooo, they played your heart how?

Soooo, they abused your trust how?

Soooo, they broke you down how?

Soooo, they silenced your voice how?

Then they implied you were lying

Made sure you were discredited as you were dying

Before now they already broke you down

They laugh as you sink while watching you drown

Crafted a web so carefully sewn

Leaving you to die alone

Coming back another round?

Chasing you, no peace to be found

Get you to do something nice

So they can use it later to pay the price

Get you to show love to prove you care

Then turn it around to make you swear

Get you to speak to show your trust

Then use it against you when they must

Get you to open up your heart

Get you to play your "willing" part

Get you to stand, to take the fall

Get you to give to lose it all

Get you to give them what they need

Get you to plant a false seed

Get you to stay when you should leave

Get you to doubt what you believe

Get you to silence all your cries

Get you to swallow their lies

Get you to forgive, to look away

Get you to stay another day

So you to let your guard down

Because they need to claim the crown

Where's the proof of the crime they commit?

Where's the proof of the lies they won't admit?

Where's the proof of the pain they themselves inflict?

Where's the proof of the masks they depict?

Where's the proof of what happens behind doors they close?

Where's the proof of their own violence that grows?

Where's the proof, where is it now?

Where's the proof, can they show us how?

They do it in secret, their hands unseen

While putting you on display cruel and obscene

They act like their hands are clean no punch and no crime

But they rejoice in narrating a story they claimed as "mine"

Anything to silence what they cannot contain

Your voice a mirror to their internal disdain

Where's the video and the proof of their ways?

The truth of their actions and intentions they hide in the haze?

Anything to antagonize you

Anything to provoke you

Anything to taunt you

Anything to enrage you

Anything to demean you

Anything to trap you

Anything to break your peace

Anything to make you doubt

Anything to fuel the rage inside

Anything to wear you out

Anything to get a person up on that cross

Anything to ensure another’s at a loss

Anything to dismiss the truth they disdain

Anything to hide the proof of their game

Anything to shift the target of blame

Anything to fabricate what isn’t real

Anything to stifle their own life they conceal

Anything to point fingers, to cast the stone

Anything to make sure you stand alone

Anything to silence the voice of the just

Anything to protect the lies they have others trust

Anything to betray as they deceive

Anything to ensure it’s you who grieves

Anything to bury the light they crave

Anything to bind you to the role of the slave

Anything to fuel the fire of their hate

Anything to decide another person's fate