You get what you give?

Kind of…

See you’re born a blank slate in a random place.

From there your plate is loaded,

And only you get to decide what to do with it.

Naturally if a child only knows harm,

It will do it.

Spits out what it got in.

And that creates this false strength.

While feeding back confirmation

Of self betrayal

From supporting original abuser’s

Harmful actions

In the act of committing them.

And so the self loathing grows,

As nothing has changed,

Save the exponential abuse,

By the once blank

Doing it,too.

What’s that you ask?

But of course

Anxiety, depression, and connection avoidance

Are included in the sum.

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So working backwards,

Are you dismissing

Someone telling you

An action caused them harm?

Was that pain you passed

Until your outer self projected it

justified

And your inner

Took a hit

Each time you did it?