Not Coloring Within the Lines


Despite how everyone takes the time

To alert me how I not normal

Dodging all judgments barbs

Poisonous darts of blame

Stepping over thunder robbing comparisons

Somehow I manage to scrape some self-esteem together

And hold tightly to who and what I am

I was given a second breath, a moment in time to exhale

Everyone is panicking and instilling their fears onto me

Worried I will piss through my blessing then come knocking on their door

I am done trying to color inside the lines

Done with jumping through hoops of fire to try to break even

When I stop freaking out and worrying myself sick

Off the fear and worry others place on me

I will perhaps stop digging my heels in tar

Accept what is no longer working in my favor

And allow myself to settle in somewhere safe

 

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