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By Valentine CaseyPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
common treatments
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You surround yourself with backhanded compliments

You let the ego slide past creating an outcome that was not meant for you.

You allowed this accepting, no filters, admiring the truths they saw within

Blinded by your own intentions not aware everyone is not meant to be the same

Their truths aren't the same as your own.

You relate on a level of hearing the same noise

But you don’t stoop to the embarrassment

You stoop lower but allow the words to continue in your face.

You don't let it get to your head

Or do you

You push most things blocking good and bad

Til you realize the binding of the two

You stand for what you believe and feel

Now aware that they don’t see what you put out there

Why would they, they cant even match their own actions to words

You love and be there, for you know their coward choice of topics are catered to their ugly lines fed to the influence they believe is true

This time around you ignore the comments that offer nothing but ignorance

You flip the conversation to a note worth more than the destination

They are not for it

They go back to the talks that lower the beauty of all things

You slowly slip away

They say it’s your fault

The sad part is they will come back

Not because of the realization

But I hope that may be the case

But the reality is the attraction to the light that they lack to feed themselves, so they take

Take and take til you feel yourself dropping again

And then they walk away with what they needed

This time you’re aware, you stop suppressing, you stop obsessing,

You smile

You say thank you

But you know the line of a hello from a shallow bed that sinks to the floor when you start to get comfortable

You align with what you are meant to move forward with

They’ll ask you to go out of your way

When they never went out of theirs

You try and try til you see there is no alignment

You cant force what is no meant to be

No matter how the introduction was made

They ask but never offer

Thinking less of your time , that does not exist in the first place

You no longer are upset with the actions for the pattern is clear as day

It is then for you to move forward because everyone is on their own layout setting up their own template

Create rooms for your own

Instead of cramming in a closet they have made for you

It is never the size of the embrace given, but how it spoken upon giving

No longer wanting to be apart of something that was “lucky” enough to come across

Wanting something that feels right feels real

Never forced

Once letting go of a false reality created by what we are told

The abundance of real spoken features enter

Welcome to the flourished

Welcome to the accepted

Never creating alternatives for each experience

Never muting

Only alternatives are to the feelings of that day

Hi and you are?

I love coffee too

No I stop drinking it

It became necessity

I have it here and there

Cant let the addiction create me again

But i want it

I want it so bad

There’s a lot of things i want

And i can have whatever i want

I bring in what i know i need though

I no longer want to feed things in me that create bad habits

I know what i want

Doesn't mean i should have everything i want

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Valentine Casey

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