saliva drips from my month as a gentle desire overtakes me tacos de carne asada with onions and cilantro in front of me he knew exactly how to start melting the jaded and bitter bitch in me he knew how to lure out the romantic in me whoβs terrified to start anew and while to some it may seem like a simple gesture he knew that to me it meant everything
Downloaded hinge to become unhinged the fountain of inspiration was waning and I needed a dose of new character energy even if some of those characters are icky and shady even if some of those characters annoy me I canβt keep writing about the same old repetitive stories reheating old trauma for the purpose of making art after a while, it gets exhausting after a while, it makes no sense since Iβve forgiven them all and honestly, I canβt do another 4 years of Trump Celibate and devoid of any romantic energy
Faith found me one day and told me to keep going when I didnβt want to Faith made me believe in GOD when I wanted to fall into the abyss of depression Faith held me as I cried endless tears of my about my latest life’s catastrophe Faith loved me when I couldnβt love myself Faith brought me people who believed in me When I couldnβt believe in myself Faith decided to one day bring itβs accomplice HOPE
I am a witch and sometimes a bitch if youβre lucky Youβll see the sweet side of me where I’m your real life magical wet dream come true If youβre unlucky, youβll meet the BPD me the worst bitch youβll regret meeting in your entire life because if you treat me badly, Iβll make sure youβre laugh at when I read a poem about you at open mic
I manifest a new boyfriend he’s a poem in the making heβs someone Iβll meet unexpectedly Heβll come when the marigolds sprout and spring is here Heβll be brave enough to try me on after I trauma dump heβll be my new spring waiting to bloom with me
the sexual tension between me and ghosting everyone is insane
we lie to ourselves continuously about our needs to save face, to avoid conquering our fears to not feel insecure weβll tell ourselves we are better off alone and independent when in reality as humans we are meant to be social we are meant to share ourselves with others but itβs cooler to say, βIβm good with my solitude, Iβm my own best friendβ because deep down inside we donβt want to get hurt again
subtitles jump from my phone screen violently one of the few films from 1950βs mexico that address domestic violence one of the few films to portray the man as the crazy one but instead of him going to prison for his many crimes against his wife he ends up locked up in a monastery
before I was diagnosed with BPD, I was very sick I wished and wished to be anyone else but me I really wanted to be a middle class white woman the kind who grew up with 2 parents in a 2 story house the kind who never had to assimilate to fit it the kind who never had to to fill out a FAFSA application the kind who was never neglected and whose feelings were always validated the kind who writes stories or poems about her favorite horse instead of stories or poems about constantly feeling like a stranger in your adopted homeland the kind who is mostly respected by men and not fetichized or called exotic the kind whoβs never had 2 jobs to survive in this capitalistic society before I was diagnosed with BPD,I was very sick I wished and wished to be anyone else but me but three years into recovery Iβve healed and wouldnβt want to be anyone else because while itβs true that many people donβt struggle as much me everyone (even middle class white women) still have their own set of insecurities and trauma I know nothing about Iβve learned I need to focus on myself, feel gratitude for everything I have as I reach my goals and chase my dreams and most importantly I now love and embrace who Iβve been, who I am, who I will be I no longer play a game of envy and view myself as a broken mess of who Iβve been or whatβs happened to me I was never those things Iβm a beautiful mosaic of everything Iβve endured, experienced and lived
Listening to my writing playlist while high a lot of songs about men begging the women to come back Interesting It is a hidden fetish, fantasy I had a man continuously
suffering for me regretting the day they fumbled me
what if the colonizer in me took over and I declared manifest destiny on every man I fancied, even if he was taken what if I didnβt care about the other woman and was a completely selfish bitch and become an expert homewrecker
His love made her glow she shone, shone, shone it was her happy ending after a lifetime of misunderstanding it was the sunshine she needed after so many sad ballads it was beautiful,it was lovely it was the ultimate love story
Cowboy with your boots and maga hat Stay away from me forget I ever existed forget that once upon a time I was your wendy to your peter forget I always flew to you when you texted me
longing to escape responsibility of my suburban life I became 21 again and did drugs and fucked stranger men I never meant any harm, I just wanted to know what it was like to not be looked at as someoneβs mother, someoneβs wife