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Diana May 2020
people treat you
based on how you treat yourself

it's typically unconsciously done

when we meet others
for the first time
it is a mixture of a few things
place a neutral facade over yourself
while you wait on continuous feedback
from the other
which dictates which version of yourself
you will expose
however
the point is that this version of yourself
is dependent on the feedback one receives from the other
if the other is humorous and talks colloquially
then you will imitate that persona
if the other is stoic and uses bombastic language
then you will imitate that persona
if the other disrespects themselves and is insecure
then you are more likely to disrespect them
abuse their insecurity
if the other reveres themselves and is confident
then you are more likely to revere them
feed into their confidence
and are less likely to disrespect them
you cannot abuse something that doesn't exist

much of this is typically unconsciously done

remember
others do onto you
in the manner in which they unconsciously wish
would be done to themselves
Mimetic Theory by Rene Girard. Look it up! It's life-changing.
  May 2020 Diana
Loveless
And over time,
My pen stopped bleeding
But my heart didn't
  May 2020 Diana
Mike Hauser
She's the cover that draws you in
From the front to the back
She's the book I'd love to read

She's a real page turner
Dog eared from right to left
She's the book I'd love to read

You just can not put her down
And with that being said
She's the book I'd love to read

With a voice angelic
From the vast heavens above
She's the song I'd love to sing

Sweetly hums her melody
From here to kingdom come
She's the song I'd love to sing

Is there anything more welcoming
Than the air filled with song
She's the song I'd love to sing

Sweet fragrance to the point
Where that is all I need
She's the air I'd love to breathe

Feeling all a-flutter
Light headed in her breeze
She's the air I'd love to breathe

Far more than my lungs could hold
But not less than I need
She's the air I'd love to breathe
  May 2020 Diana
Imran Islam
Only one loving glance of you
gives my heart joy like an ocean.
I have seen other beautiful ladies
and lovely women
But as for me, you're the best one
and I still see your smile in my dreams.

Babe, your lovely black eyes
melt into shyness.
I feel so pleased
with philophobia
when you get down in the water.
Yeah, you're still walking in my dreams.

Your eyes are full of languages
of my little heart.
The moon that fills the sky
The flower that smells to attract love
Maybe they follow your shadow.
Love, I ask you to stay in my dream always.
BE
Diana May 2020
You mouth
I love you
Against my lips
Because you’re too shy
To look me in the eye
And proclaim your feelings
Scared of the emotion
Which is all too foreign
To the likes of someone like you
But that’s where you’re wrong
Because if you just lifted your face from mine
You would see the genuine emotion in my eyes
As I tell you that you are worth loving
As I tell you that you are capable of receiving love
As I tell you that you are loved
Because the fear of rejection
Is the result of chronic insecurity
To love oneself
As they are
Unconditionally
Diana May 2020
Your body
Is a living breathing masterpiece
Your eyes
See with such precision and depth
Your hands
Feel with such sensitivity and awareness
Your ears
Hear with such distinction and volume
Your lungs
Breath with such complexity
Your kidneys
Filter and excrete with such complexity
Your liver
Metabolizes and produces substances
With such complexity
Your bones
Grow and decay and store
With such complexity
Your muscles
Contract and relax and grow
With such complexity
Your heart
Beats and contracts and relaxes
With such complexity
Your veins
Contract and relax and respond
With such complexity
Your lymph nodes
Filter and protect
With such complexity
Your brain
Processes and stores and sends messages
With such complexity
You
Are
Complex
In every image you see
In every object you touch
In every sound you hear
In every movement of your limbs
In every heartbeat
In every thought you think
In every single breath you take
In and out
There are billions of activities working
Within you
Never allow yourself to forget that
Understand
It’s harder to hate a masterpiece
Once you know all of its beauty in detail
anatomy + physiology and microbiology in college have taught me something 13 years of public school
never did -> SELF LOVE
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