Character Assassination

It's a character assassination
with no body guard in sight
alone we try to recover
from this act that wasn't right

If they can't have you no one will
the assassins, once your friends
Your path looked different and so they sought
a means to achieve their ends

They spoke of you to those who listened
As untrustworthy and a liar
The damage done, they could not see
and they threw you in the mire

Why is it so in days like these
We lose our friends to blindness
When all we ever gave the other
Were happy times and kindness

Will we ever find a way
To somehow make amends?
Because the assassins who kill you now
Were yesterday your friends