1.
Capture a man.
Hold him.
Hold him.
Hold him.
Hold him.
Hold him.
One day he forgets
his own name.
2.
Leave no body to be found.
Fill an empty grave with dirt.
Let the world forget on its own.
3.
Give him a name.
Give him twenty.
Tell him a new history.
Teach him a new language.
Teach him five.
Give him a mission.
Let him go.
4.
Take him back.
Let him go.
Take him back.
Let him go.
Take him back.
Let him go.
He comes back on his own feet.
5.
Give him blood and steel and pain
until his muscles forget the difference
between bone and iron
and his skin craves the kiss of leather straps
like it craves the touch of gentle fingers.
Drain his veins dry and empty
and fill his heart with something new
and let the poison spill like lifeblood.
6.
Give him pain.
Take it away.
Bring it back.
Take it away.
Bring it back.
Bring it back.
7.
Give him a new name.
Give him a new past.
Destroy it all.
8.
Tear him away from everything he knows.
Let him watch his world collapse.
Let him see his name wither away.
Let him strangle hope with his hands.
9.
Make him beg for mercy
for respite
for death.
10.
Deny him.
- how to break a man by sylvie (j.p.)
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