🪱Rotten Fruit – When One Person Poisons the Whole

Rotten Fruit – When One Person Poisons the Whole

We all have them in our lives - the rotten fruits, the rotten eggs. The people who quietly manipulate, distort reality, and slowly cause damage in families and society. Sometimes they arrive loudly. More often, they blend in. They smile. They stay. And by the time the damage is visible, it’s already too late.

Trust me, I know exactly what I’m talking about.

My family has been broken by more than one of these people - female and male alike. The harm they caused didn’t happen overnight. It spread slowly, silently, like rot from the inside. Relationships collapsed, trust disappeared, and bonds that should have been unbreakable were destroyed. Some damage cannot be undone. What’s done is done.

And that is one of the hardest truths to accept.

For a long time, we tried to fix things. We believed that patience, understanding, love, or endurance could heal what was broken. But some people don’t want to heal. They want to feed. They don’t rot alone - they rot what’s kept close to them.

That’s what Rotten Fruit is about.

The song uses a simple image: a bowl of beautiful, fresh fruit with one rotten piece in the center. The fresh fruit cannot heal the rotten one. But the rotten one will destroy the whole bowl if it stays. This isn’t pessimism. It’s reality.

There is no happy ending in this song - and that is intentional.

Because real life doesn’t always give us closure, apologies, or justice. Sometimes all we get is understanding. And understanding is not weakness - it’s power.

Awareness is what ends denial.

Awareness is what breaks cycles.

Awareness is what allows us to move on without living in the dark.

Rotten Fruit doesn’t promise healing. It doesn’t offer redemption. It offers clarity. And clarity is what gives us the strength to protect ourselves, to stop repeating patterns, and to choose a different future - even if the past cannot be repaired.

We didn’t fail as families.

We didn’t fail as a society.

We survived what was stolen from us.

And sometimes, survival is the most honest ending there is.