Adaptation

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I am not hard. I just learned the strategy. I just learned how to protect my fragility. I just learned how to adapt and to teach people that not everything they see inside of me is welcome for afflictions. I am not an orphanage.

 I am not a home. I am not a mouth with good words. I am not a good company. I am not hard. I am not unwelcoming. 

I am just protecting the parts of me that I spent years to make it function again. I am not heartless.

 I am just reassuring I don't get the same heartache with the familiarity of the same reasons and faces. 

I am just protecting my broken heart from being broken again because I am not that well yet. I am not hard. In fact, I am soft. 

I had always been so soft before that I took the guilt for breaking down so easily. Now I learned that my vulnerability is my own responsibility. 

I need to learn that I will not always get my anticipated apologies from people who hurt me. I learned how to adjust that the world will never adjust for me. 

It will never get along with me. Never.

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