Your verbal venom
an energetic dagger
piercing the peace in me
then hours spent recuperating
it’s no wonder
that there’s trauma
still blindsiding me…
that I’m still struggling
with this whole “adulting” thing
with a childhood spent
perpetually hurting
yeah, and no one quite understanding
my level of sensitivity
just continually projecting
their pain onto me
and then being told I’m overreacting
“just toughen up!”
a double attack
from those supposed
to have my back
oh the joys of being an empath…
with parents who have
zero concept of that…
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