Is this a new kind of avoidance? Blocking and escaping any new love possibility- or maybe I finally understand How much I value my solitude Maybe Iβm finally enjoying an inner peace and calm that comes with being alone Maybe Iβve finally learned I really am enough on my own
my beloved LA is under siege the place that saw my immigrant child self grow, and learn English the place my parents decided to make their new home the place with tastiest hot dogs at culver city mall
my beloved LA is under siege and all I can do is watch the carnage be livestreamed and Iβm transported once again to the L.A riots in 1992 when I was 11 and violence and madness was a stoneβs throw away from our small apartment while mami pretends nothingβs happening as she cooks dinner and weβre all glued to the TV
my beloved LA is under siege and I couldnβt be prouder of my people standing loud and with a firm grip of love and justice for the most vulnerable of us whose only crime was to come this country in search for a better life
closing the door to love is filling up every moment Iβm awake with work,therapy, my kids activities, time with friends, Exercise, facing fears, writing, writing, and more writing because I want to be so busy I donβt have time to think- to think about romance, to think about what could have been to think about how nice it is to have someone so instead, I fill up every second of my life with everything that fuels my growth so I donβt have time to think about this love nonsense
put me on a pedestal and watch how quickly I fall for saying no to you For standing up for myself for making myself heard Youβll cry foul and wonder, where did my dream girl go? but donβt you see- I wasnβt made for altars and pedestals I was made for thrones A throne where I know my worth A throne where Iβm valued A throne where Iβm appreciated as a whole person and not just seen as an object as affection and masturbation So quit seeing me as a saint or angel and understand Iβm a chaotic queen
consent is honesty and respect it doesnβt matter how many time Iβve kissed you It doesnβt matter how many times Iβve slept with you Always ask me if Iβm okay with whatever you wanna do Instead of pressuring me, instead of harassing me with your supposed admiration for me with your stupid pet names for me Iβm not dear, hottie, beautiful, girl or princess Call me by my god given name and maybe then I would take you seriously instead of ignoring you, pretending youβre a mosquito Impossible to get rid off
Cover me with a blanket of lies and tell me you love me tell me Iβm the only one for you and false promises about youβll never leave and how youβre not like the other guys Love me at your convenience, love me when Iβm easy Iβll believe the fantasy and play my role of the perfect and polite princess until one day, I grow out of my role and explode and Iβll discover once again youβre like everyone else who can only stand me for a short while and accuse me of being a crazy bitch and leave
putting in bold letters I support ICE in your facebook profile pic I quickly unfriended yours and your husbandβs joint facebook account the one created after he stepped out on you and karma was served to you for being a homewrecker several years ago the one created to keep tabs on him so he wouldnβt do it again and as I write this, I almost laugh hysterically because of course it makes sense that you support Trump, ICE, and everyone who wants to destroy and rips rights away from everyone whoβs not white and straight After all, didnβt you yourself tear a family apart? so it makes perfect sense also I always wondered who the other woman was from your hateful vitriol of immigrants and latinas she must be one hell of a Latina who almost took your man
once my boundaries are crossed, I CUT YOU OUT LIKE TAGS ON MY CLOTHING (like the great Conan Gray said)
itβs not romance, itβs harassment placing me on your dream girl altar and telling me about your boner Even after IΒ told you no But then you still threw me your delusional love and when I was honest right away and I told you βIβm sorry but noβ somehow now Iβm a crazy bitch, a stranger whoβs letting her mental illness talk for her after calling out your misogynistic behavior All I said was no to you and the insults come on cue I warned you, didnβt I and now foul, you cry I told you I wasnβt ready for what you had to offer but you kept playing the part of my great admirer and maybe Iβm fucked up in the head but your fantasies I needed to behead I needed to keep myself safe from men like you who try to bully me into loving them into giving in because your endless attention and compliments havenβt you read my story? Iβm not no longer a woman who bends and bends to manβs thirst for me
floating in a neon pink haze , the afterlife awaits no more suffering, no more mental health crisis no more dark doses of reality this could be lovely and nice but Iβm pushed out by forces beyond my control wake up in a fog my soulβs purpose has not been fulfilled I must continue telling my story
In therapy Iβm supposed to write about the last thing that cause me grief and I think itβs funny considering the tons of poetry and journal entries Iβve written about it Iβm tired of writing about it, Iβm tired of talking about it Iβm tired of thinking about it and I want to tell my therapist I donβt have homework for this week but this is part of therapy this is what I need to address the unhealed trauma within so Iβll write for the 1000th time about the last thing that caused trauma and grief hoping my therapist will provide valuable insight on how to let go of it
And so she self medicated with sleeping pills, alcohol and Almodovar films she wanted to drown out the feelings of worthlessness within her she was exhausted from repeating the same lust story she needed just for today to numb out her feelings, to escape the fire in her brain that burns with self-pity and self hate
temptation all around me to repeat the same unhealthy stories to the sabotage the healthy energy in front of me it would be so easy to do so allow it all to combust in front of me but I wonβt this time Iβll be different this time Iβll do my best to make it work this time he knew the poet in me before he met me and I have no hidden corners of myself left and with all that said I know we have a chance of making it
from my favorite movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
Wish I could say Iβm a chill and cool kind of girl when it comes to love but Iβm not because once Iβm into you and I let you in it will be hard to get rid of me because I am a nurturer and Iβll love you with my whole heart and Iβll make you the center of my world and find ways for us to get closer wait, wait, wait this version of me no longer exist she went up in flames a few years back Nowadays, the slightest sirens go off in me and I want to run away and block him Cease and desist any evidence of him, the slightest offence and it takes everything out of me to remember my skills learned in therapy Tell him, I need a bit of time to process and weβll talk in the morning I know that after a good nightβs sleep, Iβll look at things differently and wonβt fuck up my new love story because of a single simple misunderstanding
Iβm the girl who screamed wolf in love in my poems one too many times always acting like Iβm the victim always acting like Iβm the hurt party always acting like Iβm fucked over in love when the truth is I too have broken hearts I too am shit at relationships I too dispose of men once they fall off from my pedestal and so perhaps, I need to stop screaming wolf and accept that every once in a while I am the wolf whoβs capable of destroying and disposing of people as well
I need to exorcize you and you out of me before I step into a new chapter of love Itβs not fair to him to allow past chapters to haunt me and make me question my sanity and maybe thatβs ghosting you and sharing our story of toxic love in spanish and while my methods may be a tad questionable itβs the best I can do for now and for me, itβs enough