Psychopaths in Charge (a poem)

PSYCHOPATHS IN CHARGE

life on the blacklist

a punishment for truth

can’t win for loosing

when self-defense is a sin

and those without conscience

make their way up the chain

stepping on bodies

they fucked the night before

ganging up on the educated

whom they pathologically fear

punishing integrity

when the lies pile up

accountability is for those

lowest in the hierarchy

with no power to make real change

life on the blacklist

marginalized for daring to exist

rules are for suckers

and truth is for the dead

if they can’t kill your body

they will kill your spirit

slowly

and tell you

you are killing yourself

laughing at your pain

and moving on to the next target

who was once an accomplice

and can recognize the smear coming

from a mile away

accomplice turned victim

soaking in guilt and sin

victim of the smear campaign

he once designed

for the target

of the psychopath who painted herself as victim

of her victim

Kira Young ©2013