to a point

i will bend and i will stretch to help you feel better about yourself, but just so you know………there are places and things…….. were i ain’t gonna go so please don’t read my willingness as a free pass to suit yourself, because if that’s the attitude you take…………………there will be bridges we won’t cross, and…

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substitute/for me not u

when i have a negative thought about what you say or do, i substitute an arrow prayer, for me not really for you……………….for i cannot change your actions nor your attitude, but i can choose how it affects me by praying a blessing for you……………matters not who is right or wrong that is not in…

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15 words

driving in my car /Ā  a novel thought came to meĀ  /what if i had 15 minutes and 15 words to leave my loved ones’ and humanity i would need to pray and ask God to pick them out, asking for His help with courage and with doubt ”choose wisely asking God for help, love…

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miss J.B.

what do we know about the way things go/ looking back many lows were highs and many highs were low/ one thing that remains, although i never dreamed it would be so………………i miss my Dad his stubborness and his eccentric ways have infiltrated my life today and for all his quirks and his lack of…

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time out

i take myself into a ”time out” to keep life from living me/ because i have learned if i’m not careful life is controlling me……………….i an aware there are constraints on this plane as i go……………and i have no idea how much time is left and what i will experience as i go……………..but i have…

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penumbra

i have my moments when i stand in the light and there are moments when the shadows rule the night…………….but i have no illusion about what’s wrong or right…………just my willingness to be honest with myself i have felt the warmth and seen the light and i know where to turn when i’m feeling uptight…………..but…

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insecure, ”made you look”

if i am insecure about me, i will need your scrutiny, and perhaps your stamp of approval would help me………………to feel better about my identity the need to be noticed is a definite sign that i’m not confidant about whom i am, and if i need you to authenticate me………………….that says more about me then…

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hot poker in the eye/people pleaser

sure…………i’ll put that hot poker in my eye……………then i’ll get an attitude because i stepped aside from what i know to be true…………that i will go against myself to try and please you let’s see, how i shall cut off little pieces of me to try an accommodate you until i finally understand, you will…

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my fault

it’s my fault…………………..hate to admit/ but i’m in charge of the respect i get and it i don’t care how you are interacting with me/if i don’t call you on it, then that’s on me went on too long and it was my fault i should have called you on it from the start, but…

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belittle

when you are feeling tall and the need to make someone else small/ the only one that loses statue and height is the one who tries to slight/ and when you feel the urge to stomp go outside and have a romp because when you have the need to make others small/ you end up…

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