this time Iβll give myself permission to let my body explore pleasure with someone else telling myself, βThis time Iβm keeping it casual, itβs nothing serious, itβs not a big dealβ Iβm just ready to once again share my sexual magic write erotic poems about a human and not my vibrator itβs time to break my vow of celibacy and let someone in on my sexual energy
I wasted too much time in comparing myself to other women and blaming them when my exes chose them and allowed my jealousy and rage to speak for me Never understanding how they were all just innocent bystanders in my complicated and chaotic love stories Iβm sorry, I didnβt know any better and I wasnβt mature enough to take accountability and it was easier to use yβall as scapegoats when I lost war after war of love- It was easier to say you won because I wasnβt educated and white like you In reality, I shouldβve used my ammunition only towards my exes It was never yβalls fight to be a part of even if some of them used yβall as an excuse for their departure I’m so sorry, anna, davidβs ex-wife, my ex metamours, maybe my message will come to you in a dream or youβll see this poem in my blog one day and be able to forgive me
a pledge of allegiance full of lies brainwashes us with promises that will go unfulfilled the rest of our lives the pursuit of happiness doesnβt exist in this country that treats its marginalized communities as subhuman we can say God Bless America until weβre blue in the face it still doesnβt change a damn thing about a country thatβs fucks over its most vulnerable communities
Iβm starting to radically accept someone like me will always be judged differently from my peers it doesnβt matter how many degrees I have- how much I code switch to fit in- it will never be enough to be truly accepted so Iβll smile and nod while they complain about ivory tower problems while I roll my eyes inside my mind- man, I really wish I had your problems Susan but I got to go to my second job now
ya paro con mi cuento de pendeja que se deja menospreciar que se achica para la comodidad de otros desde ahora soy una loca, una reina que es selectiva de quien merece su amor y energΓa que cambia su historia de vΓctima a heroΓna que nunca mΓ‘s le va a rogar a alguien que la valore, que la quiere mis abuelas y mi madre no pasaron tantas tragedias en su vida para que yo me rinda a la merced de otro hombre confundido que me trata como una segunda opciΓ³n que me llama cuando le antoje
the river of my love for you dried and at first I cried but then it felt like freedom, it felt like happiness to no longer obsess over someone who treated me like shit to feel nothing for someone who caused me a world of pain over and over again Does this mean I finally learned my worth?
I give you a yard, and you give me an inch- itβs a game of back and forth nonsense one where I respect your unspoken boundaries and need for space until one day the push back from you pulled back into a dark place I havenβt been in a while a place where my confidence breaks, a place where I start to question my worth a place when my sense of self breaks once again and I know right there, and then, itβs better to give up whatever this was Iβve outgrown men who send me mixed signals
were we the bonnie and clyde of toxic relationships ? you setting up and detonating love bombs in my heart and making me explode in rage every time you left and me encouraging you with every reunion because I loved you, because I didnβt want to be alone so I went along with your emotional crimes every time Until one day, I learned my worth and blocked your energy from my universe
every time I drive somewhere new Iβm beyond terrified doubts about driving skills cloud me and I want to break down and panic in the middle of traffic but I push through my fears, my insecurities, and keep driving I canβt be weighed down by who I used to be A woman reliant on the transportation of others A woman fearful of living a full life that is my old story and itβs not that I hate that version of myself I just refused to hold myself hostage by my past which tries to hold me back from being the independent woman I was always meant to be
I was in distress the other night but I wasnβt the damsel who needed to be saved I was a friend who needed a friend and maybe I was expecting too much but you could have done better than some two word awkward text as I was breaking down in the diner
I cry over my fries while I write nonsense because nothing makes sense Iβve worked so hard to change my narrative of mental illness so hard to create a new story of strength and resilience where Iβm the heroine but tragically Iβm a falling victim again to depression, anxiety, BPD, and whatever the fuck else it is wrong with me and I wish to make myself small enough to disappear into a mist of nothingness because lately it hurts too much to exists
In the isolation of my solitude I try to find grace and compassion thatβs evading me I try to ground myself in my writing and music because I donβt want to talk about it and Iβd rather let out my tears in the comfort of my bedroom or on my notebooks because last time I let someone in on my crazy, they left they always leave me