Thank You

Originally Published 04/21/2024

Thank you for teaching me what love is not

Thank you for poisoning my every thought

Thank you for continuously using me

Thank you for emotionally abusing me

Thank you for not being generous to me

Thank you for taking advantage of all that you’d see

Thank you for mental slaps with a white glove

Thank you for teaching me I had unconditional love

Thank you for showing me all your hate

Thank you for showing me my own strength and faith

Thank you for doubting my every word

Thank you for demonstrating to me the absurd

Thank you for weaponizing love and sex

Thank you for empty accounts and bouncing checks

Thank you for the emasculations you gave

Thank you for the respect you’d never save

Thank you for not being in my life

Thank you for no longer being my wife

Thank you for the dog and pony

And thank you for that alimony…

-aaa

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We have fire imparted in the depths of our soul that refuses to go out.

Powerful and persistent it’s fed by our hearts and unique love that shaped us.

Its presence leaves us with a soft blanket of reassurance like a mother’s hug.

The drive we have when facing the utmost of challenges comes from there.

That last ounce of energy we beg for to defy the impossible comes from there.

Moments where we are stretched to the edge of our frail minds and bodies it’s there.

The sadness when our hearts break and throughout our rebuilds, it’s there.

All triumphs and tragedies it shares the heaviest burdens never fading out for even a moment.

Sparking the best in us and pushing us to want better for ourselves and those around us.

Share that fire, spark the flame in others and watch their eyes change forever.

Know you’re miniaturized starlight never dimming despite the darkness.

No matter the lesson, look inside, and see the burning flame beckoning you onward forward…

-aaa

Thank You

Thank you for teaching me what love is not

Thank you for poisoning my every thought

Thank you for continuously using me

Thank you for emotionally abusing me

Thank you for not being generous to me

Thank you for taking advantage of all that you’d see

Thank you for mental slaps with a white glove

Thank you for teaching me I had unconditional love

Thank you for showing me all your hate

Thank you for showing me my own strength and faith

Thank you for doubting my every word

Thank you for demonstrating to me the absurd

Thank you for weaponizing love and sex

Thank you for empty accounts and bouncing checks

Thank you for the emasculations you gave

Thank you for the respect you’d never save

Thank you for not being in my life

Thank you for no longer being my wife

Thank you for the dog and pony

And thank you for that alimony…

-aaa