Relational issues... Lucky 13?

This is actually comical to me.... I started to think... What actually are MY deal breakers for relationships? And this goes for friendships too.... Sooo far I have this... This has also helped me to realize why I prefer to spend a vast amount of my time in solitude...

1.) lying, no white lies either. ( I feel like cheating is just lumped into this (lying gets #2 started, it's all down hill from there))

2.) if I get a stomach ache being near or thinking of you on a regular basis... (That's my intuition talking, not needing to shit, it feels different 😂🤷)

3.) if you enter my life under the ruse of being a friend with different intentions (that breaks #1 and typically gets #2 going)

4.) manipulation, of any kind... (Sorry without change is manipulation...(Gets #2 rolling))

5.) if you're not open to change/growth (I will not stagnate with anyone, I'll decay when I die, no sense in doing it while I'm still breathing (will eventually get #2 to kick in))

6.) if you display toxic jealousy or it gets projected on to me because you're insecure. ( I genuinely want others to succeed, or I don't, but I don't sit in your face smiling and pretending... I'm sure you earned it or will earn whatever you will get out of the life you're living, good or bad. (also effects #2)

7.) if you need attention from the whole village, it's one thing to naturally attract, it's another to seek.... ( I don't like "pick me" energy, it seems like desperation for external validation, also stirs up #2)

8.) kids under the age of 15 (I did my time already. I like my sleep, and freedom. Kids are messy, gooey, loud and depending on if hormones are getting going.... it's.... I'm good, by 15 most want very little to do with their parents) <(this one's dating only)

9.) if you don't reciprocate (there's a lot of ways to show you fucking care)

10.) if you are nosey and gossip...(What goes on in other people's lives, or what you heard about through the "grapevine" from ten years ago is none of your business, it speaks volumes to your character and how boring of a meat sack you really are, not the person your talking about... Oh yeah, and get a fucking hobby loser (this one just makes me mad but it also effects #2))

11.) if you consistently drive in the passing lane and don't let people pass you (I won't be able to be in a car with you...when I figure this out I'm just as consistently judging you in my mind and think you're an inconsiderate asshole every second your unnecessarily in that lane, I eventually will bring it up and then talk shit to you and let you know I think you're part of the problem)

12.) if you flaunt money/materials around like it's all that matters... (Some people can't be bought, it doesn't matter how much you have materialistically or monetarily to me if you are bankrupt in integrity, morality and your heart, I can earn money without you in my life, plus I'm always right where God wants me)

13.) if you break your own self imposed rules on the kind of people you want to surround yourself with just because you like them or want to date them..

( I only kick it with midgets, bro where are they? Reality to me... You're not agreeing with your own boundaries, how could you respect mine? )

So in a lot of ways I don't need to speak to someone much to know if they make me sick or not (#2)

A glimpse

I live for a glimpse

A painting

Or stunning work of art

A breathtaking sunset

Or a beautiful shooting star

The sights of the city lights

The sight of lightning and the sounds when the thunder drums

The beats of the pattering rain, gathering in puddles, a rhythmic strum

The bright colors on those crisp fall days

Or the way the snow sits as it freshly lays

How the clouds reflect on a lake that is serene

Or the way children's eyes look, curious and oddly keen.

To most these moments go unfavored and frequently unseen

But these moments create my world, to me they make my life worth living

My ropes ~ n ~ slopes

Catastrophizing my old friend...

You've come to torment me again...

Rushing into the brims of my consciousness...

Instantly drudging up my view of humanity from all of their and my moments where we were our lousy-est...

Internally screaming while physically calm

How long can the demeanor last? From experience, not very long...

I think you're staring at blackmail of me

I don't think you understand, I don't think you see

It clamors up a murderous rage that hides within me

My heart starts thudding… what can it be?

As the thoughts race in instantly…“Oh God please don't tell me… was it of the rape? Wait, which one?Would they have taken photos while I was passed out without consent? Because I'm not ok with nudies, not for anyone! … Oh no is it a screenshot of someone's slanderous make believe?! Fuck or was it when I was on drugs and booze with some pretty sleezy tendencies? Was it an angry ex? An old fling felt scorned??? Or a stranger that I pissed off because they weren't properly “warned”?”

I've already killed you 10 times in my head,

All different ways, you still end up dead…

Only after my heartbeat drowns out all the noise

After I can break my line of sight from those ignorant boys

Right before the rage hits the high right below action

Where I see life could change negatively, all I need is that second of time, a small distraction

I realize I am a slippery slope…

That my trauma is my personalized rope

Took awhile

You know I often wonder

If I ever mattered to anyone

For so long I remained a puppet on strings

Realizing I was only serving a way of financial means

With my boundaries continuously being disregarded,

You really wonder why towards all of you I finally have grown cold hearted?

I only held on like that because I was greedy and didn't want to lose my kids

I knew the outcome of that scenario really before anyone else did.

Of the judgemental talk of my open faults, how it bothered those with their hidden ones,

How they would gaslight, lie and openly decieve, their manipulation would win, cons

And later on it was proved it did, but back then I had a feeling, a preface

So my pain and anguish eventually becoming a loop, continuously lived

Underneath booze and extreme mood swings it indeed hid

But eventually it all crumbled, later on I did too

I barely held on at times, because I truly felt I had no reason to

My entire sense of self, my existence

Haulted as I knew it, in an instance.

It's been a little over a year and I at times I still have this unwanted resistance

My life is lighter

Seemingly very empty

Yet oddly, still almost too full

So few people give my curiosity a genuine good pull…

At this point on my healing journey I'm no longer feeling broken

Yes some days are hard, yes some things are even more difficult when they're spoken

But to feel that weight lift, that space to free

It helps me manifest my growth in all capacities

I suppose at the end of this rant what started as a seeming tragedy,

All in all, I just feel blessed and I'm fucking proud to be me.

One year, one day

Today…

One year, one day…

Since a hospital visit, you see, my life had gone astray

The real issue was I saw the problems, just not in full clarity until after that day…

I never had noticed how I betrayed myself over the years and gave my own power away…

Oh how life shifted for me in that year, on that day…

I had given up, you see…

I had lost every shred of internal hope

That final thread that was holding me together…

I turned from old mechanisms used to cope

I deemed it a storm I couldn't weather

I wanted a clean exit, to have a sliver of dignity

Instead in mental duress, I chose a way that enabled time to dwell on life and all of it's ambiguity

One year and one day since I gave up fighting..

One year and one day since God touched my soul

One year and one day, since I started to be able to see…

One year and one day since I realized that no one ever actually believed in me… not even me..

Oh they trained me beautifully, in such destructive ways

“…that I had never been alive, no wonder it never felt real, what a sham of a life I had lived..”

I've had too many of these days…

And even though nothing and no one stays, I even lost myself along the way….

That ache in my heart tells me it was all real and true

Every silent moment spent in this screaming solitude

… my emotional capacity.. through the trauma and abuse, I could only do what I knew to be true

It's been one year and one day and I'm still in survival mode, only half way able to chase this damn dream

It's been one year and one day today, and my heart feels heavy enough to pull me to the Earth beneath my feet…

Yet I drag myself along, still mostly hopeless with an expansive inner void, a step away, from defeat…

But I have a date with destiny, even if destiny isn't ready for me.

I forgive you

I forgive you for all the lies

The manipulation and abruptly cut ties

For the sneaky behavior and blatant deciet

I knew better, our foundation wasn't set in concrete

I forgive you for the all the love bombs,

that triclked down to nothing's, because you can do no wrong…

I forgive you for always being a victim for your circumstances

Even though you were the one to cause all your happenstances…

I forgive you for digging your hole, that you made it deep…

I always knew holding a space for you, would make me sink

I chose to let you go, and I choose forgiveness too

I chose to move on and to not reconcile with you...

I forgive you for your jealousy for me,

I know it ain't easy to walk in your own shoes and to actually just be…

I saw you, even through all the lies, manuplatin and deciet

You were always the weak one, it was never me.

Little boy

Little boy, little boy

Running from himself

Little boy, little boy

Always hidden behind a mask of “wanting to help”

Little boy, little boy

His arrogance, oh it runs deep

Little boy, little boy

One that now, I could never keep

Little boy, little boy

How of late, do you sleep?

Little boy, little boy

Poor life choices, enjoy what you reap!