Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Grown Up

"...no more self-humiliation meanings..."

Grown Up

I'm no longer pleasing anyone.
I will respect my own feelings.
Why always being reasonable,
if your emotions are in danger.
And no more self-humiliation meanings,
not hurting others by not hurting myself first.
I've grown up perhaps much later,
I had to learn so much through pain ...
Now everything I've learned is gained.







Article © Dessy Tsvetkova. All rights reserved.
Published in the March 6, 2023 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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