Self Love is Courageous

Your love was brittle like baked bones.

Frustrating like lost keys, stuck at home.

Stinging like fresh wounds in crisp air.

Fickle like teens’ minds, truth or dare?

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Your love.

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Exhausting, absent catalytic converter.

Toxic, apparent environmental murder.

Vicious, like hungry lion on meat.

Predatory, like when your eyes pounced me.

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Your love.

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Predictable, like when fire meets paper.

Earned… are you the fruit of my labor?

Imbalanced, relationship teeters on the edge.

Drained, after you with no nest egg.

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Self Love.

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Courageous, lifting me from the pit.

Remedial, I was on fire. It spit.

Reflective, broke me thought true love, you.

Perspective, NOTICE: Our split, past due.

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Self Love.

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Redemptive, leaves sprout from hole.

Nourishing, wor wonton soup for my soul.

Curious, board boat and ride waves.

Restorative, restful night and peaceful day.

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Self-love is painful, growing still hurts.

Foundational, it must come first.

Responsible, healthy is what it wants.

Evolution, self-love is never “done”.

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Self Love.