L5D poem Tornielli

Five ways to destroy a girl’s spirit

by Gaia Tornielli

 There are many convoluted ways to destroy a girl’s spirit, as long as you find the crack in her soul, and count on other manageable friends

and figures of authority that look the other way.

Yo can find a label that makes her feel your disdain, your hatred and your disrespect

It does not need to have a speck of truth

but you can start by calling her names until you find one that makes her hurt

and once you find it comes the tough job of making it stick with the crowd

And for that you need a lot of pliable minds

that will mindlessly and heartlessly repeat the word as a verbal knife

Better if the label haunts her and pursues her whole life

Or you can go the old fashioned way

And spread juicy gossip and dodgy rumors, the spicy kind are the best,

But for that you need to find a shameful story, a scandal to exploit or go about creating one based on half truths to make it believable enough

For that to stick and break her spirit you need a bunch of gossip spreaders, certain amount of gossip believers and a whole lot of entitled people that feel right judging and condemning the shortcomings of others

Or you can go the passive way, and make her feel so unimportant that she is not even there

It seems the easy way but it is not, as you need to make others want to treat her as a ghost

If she talks she goes unheard, or talked over, or left by herself

Her needs should not be taken into account, nor her dreams, her screams, her desires, or her claims

The indifference needs to go on, so people that get near her must be taught a great lesson if they dare to break the invisibility spell

If silence is not for you, you can train your brain finding the wittiest insults to make her break

You will have to commit to make it a regular thing, better if surrounded by people that laugh at what you say

It is a time consuming endevour, and you must really think she is a threat, or somehow worth all that time and effort, to crack your brain and make your words a weapon, your gestures a slap in the face, your laugh not an act of joy but a sound of hate

Or if she would not break, you can isolate her by convincing all her friends she criticizes them or breaks their trust by telling others what she should have kept

But for that you need to dig out some secret she might have shared, either by guessing it or by finding another untrustworthy source.

Or you could take time and observe her friends

and say she said whatever would hurt them best.

I know it is a lot of work, but soon enough you’ll find her broken and alone.

These are as I said, the convoluted ways to break the spirit of a girl.

But you could go the easy way, and open your heart to her, make her care for you, love you, or be your friend, and share with her your putrid heart, your envious self, the nasty vile of your rotten values, let her learn from you all that, and finally have her drown with you, in the depths of your despair.