They hid themselves in the language of goodness while letting cruelty and othering happen. They mishandled things that should have been basic integrity. They had the language of regulation, mindfulness, accountability, nonjudgment, effectiveness… then they behaved in ways that were mindless, ego-protective, invalidating, and harmful. They doled out harm while claiming to be the kind of people or system that should know better, while using values-language to protect them, […]
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Suffering doesn’t disappear when you avoid itit just moves. It gets handed to whoever has the least power to refuse itor the most integrity to hold it. Then everyone calls that person the problem. That is scapegoating.
they tried to define me by their own limits i will never decide who someone is before knowing themand even after knowing them,i will never cage them in that role
mindless incompetence is insanemindless ignorance is brutalmindless numbing rots it has no place in a world that evolves
not enforcing neutrality in the face of harmemotional reactions to oppression are validhelp people locate power in themselves, not just in systemsoffer healing that doesn’t require obedience to the broken rules listenvalidatename real thingshelp people feel less alone
Capability or whatever is a moving relational field and it shifts depending on: we all gatekeep without realizing itand fragments don’t show the whole
She wanted me to smile through things that caused me painShe wanted to erase everything i ever namedShe wanted me small so she wouldn’t ever fearShe wanted control and pretended to hear Instead she left me in a lifetime of doubt and sorrowAnd filled the spaces with abandonment and shallowWords replace where love used to beAs i let go of her chains permanently
Fear will always be the first layer we encounterand if we continue not understanding its functionwe will continue being slaves to it as a whole. If we don’t learn to listen with wisdom instead of obediencewe become caged by the very thing meant to keep us safe.Until a whole system is built to serve fearinstead of listening to what it was trying to warn us about in the first […]
Guys fleeTo her like fliesShe has everyoneNo one can deny She amuses themWith her wit and charmThey all laughIn countless swarms Guys loveHer humor and allThey all catch herWhen she falls She leads them all onHiding a pocket full of knivesThey succumb to herEvery desire