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  Apr 2 Diana
Maryann I
I’m tired of loving like a dog—
all wide-eyed loyalty, waiting,
tail wagging for a love that lingers
just out of reach.

Tired of chasing footsteps
that never turn back,
of curling at your feet
only to be kicked away.

I fetch your affection,
drop it at your feet,
but you throw it further
each time.

I was born with teeth,
with a growl in my throat,
yet I soften myself
to fit in your hands.

No more.

Let me love like the wind—
wild, unchained,
touching only those
who welcome the storm.
Diana Mar 25
I don't even know what the right words are to introduce myself after so long of not having any communication with you, my older sister. I guess I'll get right to it. Fair warning, read this when you're in an okay enough place to hear it.

I consider myself an empathetic, understanding person. I err on the side of being too forgiving or being too accommodating. I yearn for relationship and repair. However, I am now beyond a place of understanding you, which is worse than the feelings I had towards our parents. I no longer wish to understand your perspective nor hold space for it. The distance and events in your life have reflected enough information for me to keep you at a distance. How foolish is it to think I would've easily accepted any hint of conversation from you in these past 18 months. 18 months...enough time for you to have gotten pregnant and just found out her gender.

Your bitterness and ego (this is how I chose to perceive it) are what broke me.

I left scared and hurt by the events that transpired between mom and I the day I left. I knew we weren't on good terms and yet I still contacted you. I extended an olive branch and you ******* burnt it. Your lack of response and absence was felt painfully and hurt deeply. It inflicted additional wounds I didn't think I'd have to tend to in an already tumultuous time.

I used to cry and wonder what I did so bad to deserve no response from you. If you were so worried about me leaving early, why leave me alone completely? I no longer cry over it anymore. Instead, I'm hurt by the fact that if roles were reversed, Marta, I would've called you in an instance. I wouldn't have left my younger sister to fend for herself when she offered an invitation to communicate as she fled our parents home with nothing but her car and clothes. ****, me getting pregnant would've been enough for me to want to reach out to have you be part of my life. You didn't.

I despise you; I hate you. You've surprisingly hurt me the most out of the entire family during this time because I expected more from you than our parents, but I guess I gauged you wrong. I expected more from you as a woman as well. Your internalized misogyny is not one I thought would be so apparent in your treatment, attitude, and behavior you've shown eddy vs. me. You're not that different from mom in that regard. That's how I feel, at least.

I am done being the "bigger person" when it comes to emotional conflicts that rise amongst us. You were the one that would say emotionally ****** up things to me I still remember and yet I was expected to initiate the repairs because my desire to be in good relationship with you was strong. It's gone now.

You learned to despise Roman's silent treatments early on in your marriage and yet you extended that same cold and harsh treatment towards me.

Plea your concerns to God because I don't wish to hear them anytime in the near future. I've plead mine for eighteen months in silence with God hoping to hear from you. I'm done now.

This is the last time you'll ever hear anything from me regarding my feelings towards our relationship or what is left of it anyway. My anger and hurt is a reflection of my desperate plea for love or grace or any ounce of ******* compassion from this family and unexpectedly you.
Diana Feb 11
Life's a funny old time
When I was younger
I thought I knew exactly how my life would turn out and who I would be
Now
After so much pain and trauma and accomplishments and perseverance
I no longer align with who I thought I'd be at this age in my life
I stare into mirrors and see someone who doesn't look familiar
Foreign
She is a glaring reminder that I've grown into someone I am not yet intimate with
I do not know her
She's busied herself with working overtime
Enmeshed in depression
Her first love
Mary
And the night shift life
It's a hard pill to swallow
Coming to terms with the discrepancy between who I thought I'd be with who I feel I am now
It's a constant tug between accepting and denying this reality
I wish I could continue sleep walking in the numbness this long season of depression has granted me
But I move to days in three short weeks
9 shifts left
I honor this time but recognize I am ready to set this time in my life down
It will be greatly missed
But I need day light to find time in my week to fall in love with myself again
Learning who I am now
Embracing the ways in which I've shrunk and stretched and collapsed
Exploring through boredom and hobbies old and new
It feels I've waited for day shift for more than just a year. I've come to Thai realization in September I believe and these last six months have felt like hell especially in the dead of winter.  I cannot wait to begin and enter this new era in my life. I've learned I'm ready to drop night shift and emerge into lighter aspects of my self.
Diana Jan 14
How sad is it
That I cry
When someone who hurts me
Leaves
Diana Jan 12
The softness I desire
Is vastly different from the rage
I was born into
Diana Jan 12
I want a love that doesn't save me

My entire life I was sold this message that my partner will enter my life and save me
What a foolish idea that undermines the power that lies within

I want a love that witnesses and listens
And holds my hand as I save myself
Supportive in my solidarity

One that acts as posts for me to momentarily and periodically lean on during trials and tribulations as I travel by foot to my destinations
A cave that I may dwell in when life is raining with no mercy
A palm tree that I may rest under for brief moments of shade during the sweltering heat of the bright sun

I deserve it
The support of another witnessing my becoming and unbecoming in this lifetime

Never impeding by creating the steps of the path(s) before me first
But watching from afar and cheering me along
Regardless of the loops, side quests, falls, skinned knees, scraped elbows, jumps of triumph, giggles of glee, pride in my skips along this journey of life

I deserve it.
I'm currently going through it with my first romantic love; I do not know what will become of it, but I know I should leave. It's difficult, so I've written this poem of what I depict my ideal love in this lifetime to be as I am in flux.
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