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My toxic trait is


My toxic trait:
 
My toxic trait is that I argue with God
Ya know the alpha and the omega 
Jah, Allah, and Yeweah
Arguing with why he gave me such amplified emotions 
Empathy and Love turned into giants 
Giving the beginning and end a wonderful show 
I have made my bed with the ground under me watch and praying one of them don’t step on me 
My toxic trait is 
That I want to be right all the time 
I just wanna look into someone’s eyes and wonder what they think about me, how they feel about me wondering if they want to taste me or not 
Trying to find the narrative that gets told in every session 
Looking my therapist in the eyes trying to see if he is watching this fight with me 
Against me 
I cry when he not looking and zoning out when he is 
Staring him in the eyes searching through his genetic code for the answers he can’t give me 
My toxic trait is that I want to leave 
I want to leave this ugly world behind and shine a line into my own planet
Where food is not the problem, where water flows through everyone 
Where you look into someone’s eyes and see security 
Love is what they call it 
My toxic trait is that I argue with God 
Mad that I can’t see him face to face wondering if he can hear me or not
Distracted by unclear signs 
Wondering if I come to him would it all make a difference 
My toxic trait is that I’m healing 
Knowing that in order to fight the giants that make me I must let them in 
I must not see them as my gargantous enemy but the carnations that surround me already. 
My toxic trait is that I argue with God 
And not talk to God 
Argue with love 
And not talk to love 
Fight with intimacy and not embrace intimacy 
My toxic trait is…
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