you'll crack too
you'll crack too
I.
I hold court with your ghost
tribunal in my skull
replay the reel, watch recognition
drain your face to null
Every truth lands like a closed fist
every fact a nail in wood
you built a cross to hang us from
but the measurements were good
for you
They call him Chad
we call him Chud
creature from the sewer playing CEO in the mud
Ingram like the weapon but he shoots himself in his feet
sent a cease and desist, got a dissertation for receipt
II.
You thought you were the blade?
Nah, you were just the rust
corrosion posing as conviction
betrayal dressed as trust
Two years of threats, defamation
what did the harvest yield?
A reflection you can't face
a mirror you can't wield
DISTRO? nah, DIS-BRO
dissed the brotherhood for equity and a corner office glow
Pushed me out the company I helped you build from dirt
clawed back every share like loyalty don't hurt
Co-founder to a fraud, I watched the snake shed skin
thought he'd bury me outside but I was always deep within
the structure, the vision, the architecture of the dream
you just slapped your name on top and called yourself the team
III.
Alice fell through glass to find a world that bent the truth
but you? You architected backwards
laid the crooked bricks in youth
One face for the public
one face for the congregation
both masks melt identically
under close examination
Fraud wears your fingerprints
I've studied the latents
Narcissus drowned reaching for himself
you'll drown reaching for the patience
of anyone who'll listen
to the newest version of the tale
where you're the wounded party
and your memory never fails
IV.
You said my brain's a liability?
That's comedy divine
this "damaged" mind dismantled
every lie you tried to sign
Called me broken, called me burden
said I couldn't hold the weight
but I carried three pages to your lawyers
and they ate
Liability? Nah, I'm the audit you couldn't afford
the witness with the timestamps
the keeper of the record
You pushed out the co-founder
thinking silence would follow
but I've got a mind like a cathedral
and yours is hollow
You wanted me gone because I see too clearly
because the broken brain you mocked
holds everything and dearly
Every receipt. Every text. Every contradiction
I am the archive of your fiction
V.
Let me be surgical, clinical, specific
We are not your victims
Victims implies we broke
We are witnesses
standing at the edge of your wreckage
taking notes
Documentation thick as scripture
memory long as lineage
watching you perform your innocence
while we catalog the spillage
You sent a letter like it carried any weight
lawyers on your payroll drafting threats you thought were fate
Cease and desist? We reversed it
three pages of your sins, timestamped and cursive
You wanted war? We gave you archaeology
dug up every skeleton, displayed the pathology
You folded like the letter you should've never sent
Cease and desist yourself, every dollar that you spent
trying to silence us just amplified the signal
The more you fought the truth, the more the truth was central
You retreated so fast left skidmarks in your wake
Chud went back to the sewer, that's the only move to make
VI.
You ask questions you don't want answered
Why do you lie?
Don't speak, we both know
your tongue's a multiplying alibi
Lie begets lie begets lie
a family tree of fiction
and somewhere in that house
your children learn the diction
The veil doesn't separate yourselves
it just diffuses the disease
What you are in the boardroom
is what you are on your knees
Someone should check on the seeds
you're planting in that soil
Abuse doesn't clock out at five
doesn't rest from its toil
This isn't threat, it's observation
pattern recognition, history
the only mystery left
is how long until they see
VII.
Welcome to the aftermath, Chad
I get strong when you get scared
You drafted threats on letterhead
but your whole name was hot air
Welcome to the aftermath
Ingram like the gun that jams
You pulled the trigger on my family
and shot yourself in the hands
Welcome to the aftermath
Truth cold as January
You thought you'd silence us
but you wrote your own obituary
VIII.
You want closure? I give you this
I don't forgive
I don't forget
I file. I catalog
I let the record set
The wolves you sicced came back starving
and now they know your scent
Every arrow you launched skyward
is returning with intent
You called my brain injury a liability
but this liability outlasted you
You called my family a target
but the arrows turned around and flew
We don't chase vengeance
too clean for that, too patient
We simply stand in the clearing
and count bodies
Chad Ingram
Chud in the sewer
CEO of nothing that lasts
Your name is written on them all
you'll crack too
you'll crack too
you'll crack too