Psychological Warfare

Lies and secrecy    
delusion and fables  
Self fabrications to  
hide your own shame  
Denying your true nature    
   
Twisting words  
Spinning stories  
Rewriting history    
Misrepresentation of information    
Bending, distorting truth    
Blatant denial of facts  
Wily attempts to shift blame    
Evading responsibility    
   
Minimization    
Magnification    
Generalization    
Dramatization  
Invalidation    
Tools of distraction    
Ego protection    
Maintaining the mask of deception    
   
Guilting    
Shaming  
Judging    
Degrading    
Slandering    
Defaming    
Endlessly Projecting    
Snaky attempts to purge    
self loathing buried within  
Desperately averting unrelenting    
disgustful gazes, reflecting from    
shattered mirrors    
   
Toxic jealousy    
Venomous envy    
Sold as ‘trust issues’  
Justification used to control    
Permitting constant    
Questioning    
Surveillance    
Intrusion    
Violation of privacy    
Denial of basic human decencies    
Safeguarding chokehold firmly  
imprisoning love.    
Protecting preservation of coveted secrets  
Fragile ego, unable to tolerate rejection  
Utmost fear of abandonment    
The ultimate narcissistic injury  
   
Deep penetrating insecurities    
bubbling up to the surface,  
threatening illusions.    
Ironically, prohibiting intimacy.    
Ultimately chasing love away.    
Self-fulfilling prophecy  
Self sabotage    
   
Ego obliterated    
Mask fallen    
What is seen cannot be forgotten    
Permanent damage  
No hope to salvage    
   
Lashing out    
Tactics intensify  
Desperate need to regain control    
Weaving in and out of dichotomous personas    
Losing grip with reality    
Believing own illusions    
Denial offers bailout    
Ransoming mask, at truth’s expense    
Cycle permeates with ferocity  
   
Only options:  
Jump from the moving train,  
Hoping to walk away with mendable injuries    
Or continue full speed ahead    
Braced for cataclysmic impact    
With little to no chance of survival    
   
He can’t fathom why  
 I would ever leave...  
While the world questions    
why I ever stayed...  
   
Neither party ever comprehending,  
I was never given a choice...  
I was merely trying to survive.