even if you were manipulated into thinking it's okay for love to feel coercive and riddled with dread it's still not your fault
even if people doubt a story that's not theirs to judge, it still counts
even if you regret the way you reacted to abuse, you weren't deserving of it
to be honest, maybe you will never forget every detail of the cruelty they knowingly inflicted onto you
that doesn't mean it will always feel emotionally debilitating
that does not mean you will be forever broken
every now and then you might cry about how unfair it feels after all this time
maybe you'll still write poetry about everything that was supposed to be that was stripped from you all at once
despite all of this you'll be okay one day
you're safe now
you don't have to repress the pain
sometimes you just have to let yourself feel the rain
BINABASA MO ANG
mercury reaches its morning peak
Poetrylacrima. tw. highest rankings #1 in deeppoetry #1 in sadpoetry #1 in freeversepoetry #2 in blackpoet #2 in yapoetry #3 in prose #4 in spokenword third poetry collection (2023)
