liar liar

Why do you lie frivolusly?

Throwing out half truths 

With no real purpose

Why don't you speak true,

When asked directly?

You say one thing

And then behave opposite

I don't see your hidden purpose

I dont know your unspoken logic

And I've dared to ask for both

You just don't make sense

I want to give you the benefit

I'm fighting my persistant doubt

My fault is in looking for good

When the evidence points to bad

I dont want to dismiss you completely

But I'm strugglig to see

The value you bring

The benefit of you

It's sad, really.

not my tantrum

If I've stated my case

Tried to be clear more than once

And you still won't listen

I concede to your stuborn

Indifference is cruel

A worse punishment than anger

It's not my business to fix you

It's my right to go silent

I don't reward bad behavior

I don't participate in stupid

I don't have to fight

Just because I'm right

You keep flailing at the wind

As I calmly walk away

You can have the win

I choose my own peace.

supporting cast

Some of us are not the first choice

Not the significant other

Not even the best friend

Some of us are supporting cast

We may be the lead in our own story

But have no lines in another's

Maybe we're a lone wolf

Which sounds really romantic

Except for the separate part

The table for one part

The feeling like an outcast part

Some of us even prefer the quiet

A single bed in a studio apartment

A noted lack of roomates

No disruptions or chaos

Being alone isn't all bad

It's being lonely that sucks

Not knowing who to call

Not having holiday plans

Not being an emergency contact

Some of us know we arent the favorite

And this is the introverts dilemma

Maintaining much needed relationships

While sustaining much needed space.

a biased animal

Embracing plurality is hard

The human animal likes familiar

Perfection is a false belief

True acceptance an ongoing battle

We are humans, not robots

We live with emotion 

And individual perception

The best we can do

Is aim to know our bias

Try to understand our priveledge

Forgive our mistakes

Keep striving for wisdom

The complication keeps us alive

Too much same is boring

Our difference makes us beautiful.

putting aside anger

My anger lives in me

That means I have a choice

I can choose to kick it out

Or make it go to its room

Or try to calm it with reason

My anger doesn't control me

I don't have to feed its fire

I don't have to drink its poison

Sure, there are things I can't fix

Awful things in this world

Things unfair, that hurt my heart

But I can choose how I feel

I can decide on forgiveness

And compassion and calm

I can make living with myself easier

By deciding to be the better person

Making anger an infrequent visitor.

toxic masculinity

You tighten the screws on you nuts

And wonder why your dick hurts

We tell you unscrewing is an option

And you add weight to the aparatus

You wonder why love isn't yours

As your lonely dick spewes hate

When we tell you love comes from love

You demand to be worshiped

Its hard to forgive the unrepentant

Impossible to teach the stubornly stupid

Sometimes we have to save ourselves

From the toxic perpetraited by your sex.

quietly defiant

Faith is not changed through fact

Belief is belligerent and stubborn

Fighting face to face is fruitless

People change only for themselves

How do we persist without impatience

When the war we want to win

It about bringing both sides together

I can quietly persist in my defiance

My defiance can be faith in humanity

My belief can be that science saves us

My forgiveness will be for everyone.