VJs Weekly Challenge – Describe but don’t reveal
“Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves.” Darlene Ouimet
Fiction Diablo, unlabelled, even when labels seem apparent, the friend who is an enemy, who is transparent only with lies and manipulative smoke that mirrors for the observant a path of broken glass hearts, twisted into a sculpture of sticky dark love like bitter treacle on the tentacles of lost hope, you stood apart from everything and denied everyone who you really are, and sucked the life out of all who trusted your pain and felt for your narrative fiction as if it were their own child. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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So many things come to mind – current (and nearly past) politicians, adulterers/ betrayal – but that last line gets to me. “As if it were their own child” speaks to something treasured and coddled, and I am reminded of addicts. Maybe my mind is just in a dark place today, lol.
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I’ve known people like this unfortunately.
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Strong message well presented, Paul.🙏
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Quite right.
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Wowza, powerful…leaves me speechless and impressed.
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Thank you for the wonderful response Zelda.
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You’re sincerely welcome!
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Whoa. That is one toxic Diablo.
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Hard when they are a colleague, sadly. toxic indeed.
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I had a boss like that. I stayed for two years out of a misguided sense of not being a quitter.
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I get that, I’ve stayed on a bit longer than hoped out of the same sense – duty perhaps?
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Duty and guilt, mostly.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Chuck- and happy weekend.
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Always a pleasure to read and share your posts with followers, Paul!! Have a great day!
😊👍✨✨🎉
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Beautiful writing❤️. Enjoyed this😊
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Thank you
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Disturbing poem – so well written
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Yes, a composite of irritating people that undermine.
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