#narcissisticpersonalitydisorder
The siren saved me
With her fragrant tune
On the water
At half past noon
He couldn’t resist
And she pulled him
Underneath
To have him join her
As her daily feast
At half past noon.
-L. Frost
Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 at 5:43 AM UTC
Attention: This is your trigger warning:
If you walk outside your door this morning
you’ll be assaulted by noise and light.
You may choose to go back to bed
to avoid the possibility of fright.
In fact keep the shades down
and the covers pulled up tight.
Don’t talk to people; some may disagree
with you; they won’t heed your plea
to change their minds to your view.
Don’t read books by authors who are male.
They might contain descriptions of female bodies
that remind you that under your clothes you are undressed,
and boys who look at you know that. You’ll feel stressed.
Avoid all books with mentions of violence.
Such as Civil War diaries or histories of World War II.
Your teachers may overlook the fact that you have certain entitlements
such as the right to be free of knowledge that is painful. You
also shouldn’t have to learn about cultures that are different from your own.
We all know that’s how seeds of anxiety and doubt are sown.
If subjected to these shocking things you could have a panic attack
because the knowledge that others don’t do or think as you do
will be traumatic. You’ll never come back
to sanity. You’ll be irreparably harmed.
You could learn that you cannot command that others think the way you believe that they should.
You wouldn’t want to know that. It just wouldn’t feel good.
Jul 15, 2017
Jul 15, 2017 at 8:01 PM UTC
You dismissed evolution when the animal learns to bite to survive,
you only care when it bites you.
My mother calls me selfish with tears in her eyes.
All I can think about is when they locked me out barefoot in the snow for crying as a child,
with the coyotes of northern Virginia.
And how the animals didn’t harm me,
but instead looked back at me with tears in their own eyes.
Because we were both subjected to the cold of our livelihoods that taught us to fend to protect ourselves,
even if we were both born with what others saw as a fur coat to never feel the ice.
Only the coyotes was made of fur,
yours was made of the stability they gave you.
How could you be cold when others could see what you had?
To them you had a coat on,
It didn’t matter if it you could actually feel it or not.
We both learned to fight for our food,
both demonized for it by the same reason we fought for it in the first place.
You hunt for your food once.
You hunt for it twice.
You hunt for your food three times.
Until your natural instinct is to hunt, and to hurt.
Although you weren’t born to hunt, you weren’t born an animal.
You were made into one.
Forced to hurt for your food because they didn’t want to feed you.
They try to feed you now, and you bite them.
They’ll wonder why,
they’ll tell you that you shouldn’t.
You don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
But they never did.
You fed yourself.
You protected yourself.
You comforted yourself.
The only person there for yourself was you.
You were made into the animal,
now when they try to be there for you,
you bite.
They’ll call you violent.
“Petty”
“Abusive”
“Selfish”.
But they don’t care that you were taught to bite.
They only care because you bit them.
Because the mark from your bite was proof they made you this way.
May 22
May 22, 2026 at 7:45 PM UTC