I try to banish the clouds of doubts and insecurities in me everytime Iβm in love, I get like this everytime I start to feel comfortable in a new sanctuary I start to question if iβm worthy, if iβm deserving is it possible that really, Iβm the problem and the one who sabotages everything
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
Iβll leave an emotional stain on your life that will be hard to get rid of Youβll curse the day I was born Youβll regret the day you ever meet me because I demand respect, because Iβll never be your safe place because Iβll say βnoβ to being relegated to the role of mistress and youβll accuse me of being crazy and narcissist just because I wanted to be treated with dignity just because I want to be seen as more than another girl to pass the time with
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
Iβve walked through the warzone of my love life long enough to know when a bomb is about to explode (when I fall of some guyβs dream girl altar) It’s a minefield full of suppressed feelings consequences of accommodating to a manβs ego And Iβll tread ever so carefully I donβt want to be alone, I just want to be loved, Iβll bend and bend until you call me Gumby Except Iβm not and then Iβll snap and another bomb will go off βYouβre crazy,β youβre dangerousβ β I donβt recognize youβ all for expressing my feelings and wanting respect and dignity
to inhabit and exist in my body is exhausting itβs constantly being in fight or flight mode constantly waiting in hypervigilance for the next atrocity from this administration wondering if my son will make it home today without incident worrying if my parents or brother will be taken away by the American Gestapo lighting candles and praying on my rosary for my familyβs safety and my sanity try my best to function as democracy is falling and continuously reminding people yes, immigrants are human beings and deserving of respect and dignity
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
one day Iβll give my testimony of how I burned down to ashes and resurrected from them and wrote my powerful chapter called empowerment and love and how the worst of me had to happen in order for me to to become the powerhouse in front of you
I believe in second and third chances because more often than not Iβm the one whoβs written off because more often than Iβm left after the first time I fuck up because more often than Iβm expected to be almost perfect and this weighs on me heavily but itβs my cruel reality so Iβll give a second, a third, even a 4th chance because I believe people can change because I accept people for the humans they are because even if my benevolence burns me at times at least I donβt commit an emotional crime cause judgment without compassion makes one an inhumane and callous
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
canβt seem to get away from my demons no matter how fast i run, no matter how healed I claim to be they always haunt me in my dreams, or when Iβm at my most vulnerable and happy thinking life might finally be going right for me But out of the blue, my new boyfriend annoys me, unexpected bills show up, my stalker is back and creeping on my blog, and I fight with my teenage son I wonder what did I do to piss off the universe this time
one day I’m going to make her proud of me with my book
it found me on a tuesday afternoon, inspiration for a book a poetry book of sorts telling my life story and while this has happened many times I pray this one sticks because I have all of my material in my google docs at the very least, itβs given me inspiration as to where to go next
The first and last time I tried to die I tried to get everything right I wrote letters to my loved ones and swallow each pill one by one All that was easy enough but really dying was tough Something inside me was too stubborn And sent one last text out to a friend who alerted my husband Between her and him, I never reached my end but in that moment I understood the suicidal writers and poets Living is exhausting,living is agonizing I yearned for the sweetness of death to take away my mediocre breath But the universe or God had other plans And today I finally understand Living is painful,living is terrible But living is also beautiful and really living is admirable