I wont accept

Why does the world ask me to be something I am not?

Why can’t you take care of me in the ways that I want to take care of you?

If that’s not valid, why is it only a problem when I start caring for me in your stead?

I want to be in a community that loves freely. Period.

I can’t just give and give and let people do me harm repeatedly.

And gaslight me, and tell me that I need new perspective,

When every single thing my intuition was afraid of has become very real.

I won’t be whatever it is you want me to be,

I won’t be whatever image of me you have in your head,

I refuse.