Best Gaslighting Poems
Betwixt our deceptive connection
Lies told, to always end in
I’ll never have a profound perspective
As my skepticism results in your grin
When our paths crossed
Like two sailboats in a panoramic sea
I believed you were mannerly
Though, sprouted unexpectedly was your immorality
My standpoint was already set
My conception was that you’d abet
To all the curves, bumps, and facets of me
Though you’d never devote to me
You’d only break me to debris
Every word transmitted from your “soul”
Carried no true sentimental worth
Yet I believed you, over my mind you had control
Desiring for your concealed lies to rebirth
Lies and gas-lighting were brought upon me
Despite your affectionate expressions
I thought truth be told, that I was free
But I’m now trapped under your early impressions
Doubting and doubting your false affection
Perhaps you don’t know how to express emotion?
But deep inside, I know that’s untrue
That I’m just someone to be used, at least to you
Though acceptance is quite challenging for me
I’m unsure of why I still trust you
As you treat me like nobody
Though these lies will forever pursue.
Relationships are roles
and roles are rehearsed
until someone stops showing up
That’s when you see
who they are
without the performance
I want a clean exchange
care for care
value for value
Love does not replace value
It exposes whether it was ever there
The bare minimum keeps things running
but reverence
keeps them alive
If the person taking my order
makes me feel like a nuisance
I leave
Not in anger
in alignment
Air is vital
yet free
So no one protects it
Gold is useless
yet rare
So people kill for it
Scarcity teaches
What comfort hides
Everything you say yes to
costs you a no somewhere else
And too many no’s
to yourself
turn into a life
You didn’t choose
In solitude
You can build
In slavery
You cannot
Sometimes we mistake attachment
for loyalty
and endurance
for love
But when you pull back your attention
And they ask what’s wrong
nothing is wrong
You are simply no longer
carrying bricks
for someone else’s castle
Manipulation feeds on reaction
on guilt
on noise
So give it none
Gravity doesn’t argue
When you fall
It simply is
They cannot hook you
If there is nothing
to grab
In the silence
They are left alone
with their own toxicity
And you
finally free
to decide
What kind of life
Are you building
Your own
or someone else’s empire
Gaslighting
Your words are etched deep into my skin,
They must have hurt, these scars,
But you told me they were beautiful,
And I believed you.
Your accusations have ripped my flesh in,
My brain and heart, are stored in your jars,
But you said I was safe and beautiful,
And I believed you.
I am bones in a cage in a rusty bin,
I have forgotten my dreams, and the stars,
You said they were never beautiful,
And I believed you.
I am dust, in air spread too thin,
I float through the gaps in the bars,
I feel the warmth of a spark within,
The glimmer of hope from afar,
The shimmer of lights that begin
To glow, burn, blaze, char,
You towered over me, so beautiful,
I was so ugly and useless, you see,
But I somehow held onto the choice
To believe not in you, but in me.
rearrange my rep and say I'm acting strangely
while I disappear unseen
out of range from the scene
trying to make sense of the path what drains me
and continue to claim my head and actions are strange
beyond sane and lost of logic
shrugging shoulders at the topic
as though mental damage the answer able to explain
and let it engrain to whom you entertain maintaining
the same message of he's "insane" has a "broke brain" or went "deranged"
avoid voicing my avoidance exists from my annoyance
at your persistent ignorance, ridicule and evident cold blooded attitude to my existence, saying I went mad in an unexplained instant without warning like I took too many drugs and changed from night to morning, and now you're the selfless friend who's lost a friend who meant much more than can be replaced mourning, gaslighting my name in my absent space you two faced
special case embracing the need to disgrace mates to fill and finally feel the first placed podium place while I'm wasting in pain going crazy trying to re-pace what made me this way,
Contempt carves her soul
He wants her pain to sustain
His pleasure is cruel
Oh how, I cry, disdain toward the word,
that gaslights sanity and truth defy.
When hapless, hopeless person, undeterred,
begs ask the question, of the victim, why?
Does thou holdest thee in purest contempt,
whilst quick, to grant, my aggressor pardon?
Lest I, in whom, no violence breathes, attempt,
to find, just cause, yet does, in myself, shun.
Yet still, it is, not I, that strikes the blow,
not I, in whom, is ruled, by selfish gain.
Not mine, the tongue, from which, hate seeds doth grow,
nor my, the hands, whose vice-like grip, chokes pain.
So when, I'm asked, the accusat'ry 'why?'
I'm shook, as you, dispel my truth, as lie.
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Hey, ventriloquist -
try putting words in my mouth...
these lips will not move
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06/21/2018
The hurt is pooling in my throat
and to avert the watershed,
you build the dams I tolerate,
make my demands the stagnant moat
where if the bridge is drawn, I'll drown
So I hold on to stay afloat
Then, once I'm safely back onboard,
your gaze, a hazel gray garrote,
will take my breath away, instead
I tolerate the dams you build
for fear I'll find no other boat
("Perception/Reality Merit Badge" #62, 2015, original oil)
Smoke and Mirrors
Amid the flux
Of shimmering sound and vision
Someone is lying
Is it your eyes
Is it your ears
Is it those pulling the levers
And splicing the tapes
Or is it all of the above?
In the end
It’s not the lying that matters
Since that’s what senses
And people do
It’s the believing
That will get you in trouble
Every time.
(8/14/24
bad situations
active imaginations
can kill relations
creating conspiracies
with broad designs to deceive
bloody mockery
shinigami lottery
a dichotomy
of preaching false brotherhood
so others will do no good
trying to obscure
real truths which should endure
facts filled with manure
some choose to communicate
into codes filled up with hate
white lies and false sums
psychological ransom
untruth the transom
when gaslighting has begun
take hostages without guns
multiple faces
yet none which more disgraces
truth which lies debase
dishonor become thy name
as this world is set aflame
("The Cave of Unknowing", 2012, original oil)
Live Free or Die
Live free or die!
Well, we’re all gonna die,
But living and dying free
Is obviously the way to go.
Freedom of speech
May be the root of all our freedoms
But it’s meaningless
If all we can do is parrot others.
Look around
The night sky is daylight bright now
From all the gaslighting we see streaming
From every pore of every mainstream media whore.
The blind are blind not from birth
But from having their heads buried in sand
For so long
They can’t tell up from down.
Nothing new under the sun
And Plato spilled the beans long ago
On the blind
In their caves of unknowing.
But the point is you have to see for yourself
To know the truth,
And as all truth knowers know,
Only the truth will set you free.
(6/26/24)
i' m stepping on
the gas
i'm leaving the past
never see my
ex again
if the sun sets
and i haven't let
yet
i gonna burn
this whole
i said
gonna burn
this whole
town down
i said if
i stay
my heart
will never
see the light of day
so i'm gone
gonna get
in my truck
i'm said
gone
gone
gone
there gonna be miles
to drive
to get him/her
out my mind
because baby
i'm so gone
Fake news covers up for every Biden lie
projecting on to Trump to demonize
Yet the truth leaks out to their own demise.
Trump is Putin puppet yet Trump kept Putin in check
Biden lost Ukraine with massive funding that is suspect
Trump phone call was to blackmail Ukraine they claim
while on film Biden boast with holding funds
to fire Ukrainian prosecutor for crimes of Biden and his son
Falsely investigating Trump to the nations shame
Trumps home invaded for secret documents he kept
a crime impossible for Trump since he was President
As veep Biden stole top secret classified documents
and sold them to the CCP our government secrets
Trump keeps his documents locked and guarded at Mar-a-Logo
Biden had them in his house, garage , U Penn to sell and show
More deaths from covid under Biden with vaccines that do more harm
The sudden deaths of healthy young men causing alarms
Our borders invaded and nation under siege
Inflation and falling wages as our people bleed
No oil gas or coal means no more food
Biden administration so dumb and arrogantly rude
Grooming our children and confusing gender
World at war, Christians thrown in a blender
All blamed on Trump but with him we were good
Gaslighting backfiring on them for the truth is understood.
This is the century of the Big Lie.
Right from the beginning
With the Dot Com boom
9/11 attack and subsequent counter attack
We’ve been living
In one continuous deceptive news cycle
Of misinformation, disinformation, gaslighting
And Chicken Little fear mongering.
It’s no wonder the youth today,
Those born this century,
Are terrified of what is, and what’s to come,
Taking it out on themselves
With self destructive addictions and disorders
Taking it out on their peers and families too
Since actions have consequences
That ripple out through all time and space.
We’re all hardwired to believe
But in an era of pervasive brainwashing
In schools and media, entertainment and culture
We need to learn how to doubt
And critically think,
Trust our gut, intuition and the common sense
We’re also all born with.
We need to recognize the lie
And where it has come to dwell
In each of us.
(3/7/25)
In another narcoleptic nightmare,
along crepuscular curbs
I am endlessly stalked by the depraved.
Their railing against conspiring contrivances.
These gaslighting doctors of spin.
On every corner a barking Icke or Alex Jones,
On every path a fear-mongering Judy Mikovits.
Get hip to all the globalist conspiracies,
Look smart, as all the word-crafters think for you!
Submit, as all the witchcrafters take from you!
These gaslighting doctors of spin.
Everywhere the nebulous deep state threat!
Don’t you know?
OAN told me so,
and Fox News provided the echo.
Co-conspirators of conspiracy conspiring,
Their shrieking against baleful bogeys,
Their immolation of fading truths.
These gaslighting doctors of spin.
Warlord POTUS, a Stalin, and Hitler disciple.
“Truth isn’t truth,” Rudy told us, after all.
The best control of the masses:
choke all channels
with conspiring conspiracy cocktails,
these gaslighting doctors of spin.