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Writer's pictureHannah L

Bribery

In shadows cast by deceit’s dark veil

You orchestrated a clandestine tale

Friends turned spies under your command

Reporting back as you held the upper hand

 

A web of intrigue, spun with glee

Convinced that spying was the key

Did you pay them, offer a bribe?

Or were your manipulations their tribe?

 

With each whisper, each secret shared

You held control, the puppeteer ensnared

Their loyalty bought with smoke and coin

Or perhaps convinced it was right, not a ploy

 

Your influence, a twisted game

Where trust and truth went up in flame

But now I see through the smoke and lies

Breaking free from your cunning guise


My mother used to have my friends surveil me without my knowledge. Some later revealed that she would provide them with incentives like cigarettes, money, or simply a listening ear to gossip and criticize others, as teenage friends would do. This monitoring allowed her to constantly scrutinize and belittle me, under the guise of gathering information for doctors, omitting the part about my friends’ involvement in the surveillance, and shenanigans she, herself, was involved in.


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