Poem On 'The Bystander's External Bully'

New line

Read between the lines.
No don’t read between the lines.

There is a fine line in the sand,

Where people get you or they don’t.

New line.

See the people who love you hard.

Support you always.

Accept you.

Know you.

Love you for better and for worse.

New line.

You can fuck up and still be right.

The story, the guilt around how we see things.

Wounded child.

Inner critic.

External bully.

The bystander

Watching.

Standing on the line that they didn’t draw.

Spending an entire lifetime trying not to piss people off.

Always nice.

Too nice.

New line.

Awaken the wild woman.

She is inclusive of all things.

Off the rails

Beyond the truth.

You can speak it.

Honour it

But never defend it.

New line.

The unrealistic