What would you do?

What would you do if you found out someone was destroying your character to others?
Would you confront them? Try to convince them?
So what happens to those caught in the middle?

Perhaps Mr. Frost was right. Good fences make good neighbors.

I know what you might be thinking. That poem wasn't really trying to say that. It was being sarcastic.
Is being exposed really what we want though? You know people. They can be real jerks sometimes. They can betray your trust. They can try to control you. They can try to defame you to everyone around if you don't fit their mold, or even if they themselves have issues that for some reason line YOU up in the crosshairs. You want to jump up and say, "That's enough. You have no right to accuse me." But that would only anger these self-righteous ones and their twisted piety. And those caught in the middle? Suffer.

Well no more.

I will make myself blameless. They have nothing they can say. It will fall on deaf ears.

Say what you want about me...

I'm untouchable.