Owned - Mental Abuse
To portray a different facet
That the outside world believe
A spectacle a performance
A web of lies spun to deceive
Chastised another day now
This pattern is well worn
Tolerance my saviour
Of a life threadbare and torn
Know not to voice opinion
Nor bring attention my way
Pass through this life your shadow
A different life I often pray
Fear, your sharp words heard
Restrain me hence my peers
So many lost connections
Since forgotten over the years
Now lonely I am meek
Personality no longer exists
My being swathed, negated
Life fraught with evil twists
To keep peace I surrendered
To the barrage lasting days
My being to you I gifted
My anger no longer ablaze
Defeated I accept my sentence
Realise jealousy be your source
Certain you have me shackled
With not one thought of divorce
If my own voice I could find
Open ears only to reason
This prison I could escape
As you be tried for treason
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