Shapeless love.
Can I call it love?
My parents co-exist.
My parents are strangers in a legal contract and they are destroying me slowly.
I am burning up, I am burning out trying to stay afloat
I am trying to hold onto a hope that is not them.
Bound merely by chance and children, in a loose hapless form.
Why won't she leave?
Mum, neglect is abuse too.
Mum, manipulation is abuse too.
Open your eyes, I want to scream to her. I want to pry and hold her eyes open till they begin to tear up from the wind of his destructiveness.
Mum, please put your first.
She has given till she has no more, and he's taken till he has no satisfaction.
May 4, 2022
May 4, 2022 at 4:43 PM UTC
Shapeless love.
Can I call it love?
My parents co-exist.
My parents are strangers in a legal contract and they are destroying me slowly.
I am burning up, I am burning out trying to stay afloat
I am trying to hold onto a hope that is not them.
Bound merely by chance and children, in a loose hapless form.
Why won't she leave?
Mum, neglect is abuse too.
Mum, manipulation is abuse too.
Open your eyes, I want to scream to her. I want to pry and hold her eyes open till they begin to tear up from the wind of his destructiveness.
Mum, please put your first.
She has given till she has no more, and he's taken till he has no satisfaction.
I am hurting. For my mum, for myself.
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