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"Sugar Honey Iced Tea" by Lay

Have you ever been so fed up about someone or something constantly hurting you? (Hell Yeah)


They eat, sleep, breathe hurt onto others.


Some people can tolerate it, others can't, and some are too blind to see that they are getting hurt. Then you have people like me; who had a mixture of all three.


As a person who dealt with this, it is draining and can cause your mental health to go down in a spiral in the blink of an eye. But to be real, giving up is weak but showcasing your weakness with boldness is powerful and makes you stronger.


Then, when you gain that strength, you look back and realize that you were and still are more than enough. In the words of Bryson Tiller, “I’m back, and I’m better,” and life is beautiful.


“You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.” - Maya Angelou, Still I Rise, 1978


This poem is a continuation of my previous poem, 988.


Stay Blessed

Dear 988,

To say this to you as lightly as possible

You really are a piece of Sugar Honey Iced Tea

But I can't taste how sweet you are anymore

Only bitterness lies on my tongue now

When you try to consume me

And it's funny because

It's Supposed to be my Job to Consume you.

Drinking you for the First time

Put me in a sugar high

making me intoxicated

There I was, delirious

Thinking

"This is normal; I'll be fine."

I made you my Happy Place

I Invited you in

My Comfort Space

I set up a table for just me and you

You were my muse

I refused to let anyone or anything to keep us

Separate

But as time went on with your company

This broken record question

Kept hitting me rapidly

Why is my Smile So radiating Outwardly

But Internally none of the gears are Shifting?

988

I would like for you to Answer this truthfully

This may be hard for you

Presumably

Because lying is the only thing

That is painted in your masterpiece

Masking so many souls

To have fake identities

When all they are trying to do in life is

Master peace

988

I am not sorry for letting you go

I don’t miss your presence

You’re not my happy place

And, of course, like you always do

You’re going to go on and find your next soulmate

Fill their heads with so many lies

Tell them that they’re beautiful whenever they cry

And your final favorite act is to tell them

“Just kiss the world goodbye.”

You're always plotting

Waiting

Anticipating

To see a demise

988

You really are a piece of S.H.I.T

Pardon my French; the acronym for that is

“Sugar Honey Iced Tea”

An addicting drug

Trying to consume the weak

But your consumption didn’t get a lick of me

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