you had no business being up there. Way up there on that pedestal.
...On my pedestal. But I gave it to you.
I gave it to you because I thought the world of you.
At some point I decided that you were better than I was; that you were worth more.
Simply put, I was wrong.
Granted, I had been pawning off my pedestal long before I met you.
By the time I got to you. . . I had already proven to be exemplary when it came to putting others needs before my own.
My mother taught me well - ensuring that I would hear her voice before my own in any circumstance. For a long time I didn’t know how to turn the volume down on that deafening, damaging, debilitating voice that I had the most difficult time dismantling.
I ask myself now what made me think that you were so much better than me.
My perception of you was so skewed.
The picture that I drew of you, seemingly perfect - faded before my eyes.
Who are you, really?
About the Creator
Taejiana Zhane
Artist, Writer, Poet, Empath, HSP, Plant lover, Healing Enthusiast, 🏳️🌈
aries ☀️, scorpio 🌙, aquarius ⬆️
and here you are living
despite it all
- rupi kaur
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