I'm not the one

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Poem from my newest book Today Means Amen, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, @buttonpoetry’s online store, and your local bookstore.

The Bones Bellow // Sierra Demulder

Sierra Demulder, The Living Room Needs A New Coat Of Paint (via words-and-coffee)

4/30: “I have justified horrible things to feel loved. Done and endured.” This photo was taken in 2003 by my first boyfriend in high school for his photography class. As our relationship was my first, it is the earliest record I have of some of the behavior explained below: . Although Twos have strong feelings for others, they have potential problems with their feelings. They tend to overexpress how positively they feel about others, while ignoring their negative feelings altogether. They see themselves as loving, caring people, yet all too often they love others only to have others love them in return. Their “love” is not free: expectations of repayment are attached. Twos are often hampered in their ability to truly love others because their self-image is highly invested in having only certain positive feelings for people, and not having other, “unpleasant” feelings. . Healthy Twos, however, are the most considerate and genuinely loving of all the personality types. Because they have strong feelings and sincerely care about others, they go out of their way to help people, doing real good and serving real needs. But if they become unhealthy, Twos deceive themselves about the presence and extent of their own emotional needs as well as their aggressive feelings, not recognizing how manipulative and domineering they can be. As we shall see, unhealthy Twos are among the most difficult of the personality types because they are extremely selfish in the name of utter selflessness. They can do terrible harm to others while believing that they are completely good. . The essence of the problem is that even average Twos cannot see themselves as they really are, as persons of mixed motives, conflicting feelings, and personal needs which they want to fulfill. Instead, they see themselves only in the most glowing terms, ignoring their negative qualities as they gradually become self-deceptive. [Enneagram Institute.] . #earningthirty

Alejandra Pizarnik, from “[…] of the Silence,” Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 (via lifeinpoetry)

Quote by Sierra DeMulder (@sierrademulder)