What you tell your mind to avoid is what your heart is truly seeking - Najwa Zebian

You came to me with
broken wings.
I helped you heal your
wounds
by pouring love into the
broken pieces of
your soul.
You flew away
when your wings were healed.
You left me here,
chained to the ground,
trying to remove the shards
that got stuck in my own wings
as I took them out of yours.

Where did gratefulness
go?
I will not let your deception
make me not want to help more
broken wings out there.
Your lack of gratitude
will not make me
not give.
I do not give just to
be thanked.
But it does not mean that
it does not hurt.

Maybe the thing that made you special is how you’re always there for everyone and never say no. And when you attempt to start setting boundaries and stating your wants and needs, you are made to feel like you lost that special thing that earned you acceptance and approval before. But is it really acceptance and approval if it leaves no space for you to be yourself? If it leaves no space for you to expect to be treated in a way that reflects the worth you know you have?

Little do you know that, while you’re envying a person’s beauty, money, or success, they may be battling to live. Those things that they have that you don’t have may be a way of helping them cope. Those things may be a way of proving to them that perfection does not exist. It cannot exist. Just because people don’t complain to you doesn’t mean that they don’t have problems. It means that they’ve learned to accept their problems and deal with them without wanting you to worry. They think of how to keep you happy while you wonder how they could be so happy.