vision mismatch

why do we opt to trauma bond
with whims of relatives
when their expectations
are both selfish and irrational 
and inconvenient to comply with

we should not
yet we tend to do
signalling bondage 
to an imaginary script
we really do not need to follow
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Crandall Avatar
March 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I like the idea of freeing from harmful unwritten scripts. I feel like sometimes, we do it blindly.
Seeker Avatar
March 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
:)
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