you summon my echoes like a drag from your lips and the smoke you let out breaks the walls colored blue and green and so in love those distorted lenses of a parallel world I wonder what brought you my way to obstruct it with such delicate fantasies I couldn't imagine before and after you and that's where they linger while you're out of it because you were never there and I stayed long after it stopped being good for me I asked myself why it hurt my lungs they breathed the air around you

It should unsettle you when someone treats you like a choice, taking only what they want and leaving the rest. Only pieces of you, never the whole. You should feel the quiet fire of knowing your worth, the calm certainty that your time, your heart, your energy, they are not for someone who doesn’t see it. Who doesn’t respect, cherish, or celebrate all of you. Let go of hesitation, indifference, and half-hearted care. Walk away. You don’t owe anyone scraps. You deserve presence, devotion, and the full measure of love and respect, the whole cake, with every candle lit.