You’re No Daisy at All

On By DaniIn Assholery, it needed to be said., Poetry, Telling it like it is2 Comments

There you are with your grand attempt to get my attention…

You address me loudly from across the room as if we were long lost friends.

You think… knowing my name and our brief history of casual cordiality entitle you to some sort of deference… it does not!

You made your position clear when you removed the loose connection that allowed your beliefs to be questioned and you to have to defend them.

Your unwanted projection of nicety was really just, your passive aggressive way of saying “ha ha I won, and by the way, how are you dealing with it?”.

But I know who you are…

And I know what you did…

You haven’t won.

Your cognitive dissonance blinds you to those you’ve betrayed

and to what you’ve truly lost.

We are not…and never will be…friends.

May 8, 2025

Red Egret

On By DaniIn Enlightenment, Heartbreak, it needed to be said., Poetry2 Comments

Her words…his words…their words fill the cavernous space that her heart once occupied, before it was ripped out of her chest and stomped beyond recognition.

They drone on about her unworthiness to experience any semblance of happiness because they perceive her as flawed, imperfect and less than whatever it is they think she should be

Their incessant echoes are cacophonous, and they almost always drown out her own voice of reason… almost...always.

Death by a thousand cuts…

Red Egret sometimes believes them and self-sabotages her awaiting bliss

She finds solace and sustenance in nature, in the cool calm waters of rivers and lakes.

Beneath the soothing waters in the silence, she can hear her own still small voice

It offers grace, redemption, forgiveness, love, compassion, but most of all… acceptance and encouragement to be who she is…just as she is.

You see, Egrets are never red… except when soaked in the blood of the unthinkable

Hopefully Little Egret can fight her way to the surface…washed clean in nature’s purity, with the knowledge, will and determination to escape and start wonderfully anew.

4-2-2025

Monsters

On By DaniIn Assholery, Heartbreak, Poetry, Telling it like it is, WTF!6 Comments

How I long for the days of innocence when monsters were things like gnarly trees that we imagined coming to life and trapping us in their rugged embrace, or trolls that levied ridiculous tolls to those who dare to try and cross over their bridges.

Real monsters… malevolent, murderous, sadistic, greedy, cruel and hateful… are human and they walk among us.

They are often people we know or those no one would suspect…

The apex predator has been and always will be mankind.

3-9-2025