help yourself

i am not your project
not in need of saving
to be restored from drafts
nor be redone from scratch

not a work in progress
nor a fixer-upper
not in your portfolio
nor part of your cv

so kindly fuck right off
you smug, self-righteous toff
look for another dunce
to suffer your ‘guidance’

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2024

9 thoughts on “help yourself

    • I agree with you. It’s well worth saying, even if only to ourselves. I’m tired of being other people’s ‘project’. Just straightforward friendship works for me. If I need help, I will genuinely ask!

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  1. But sometimes, someone we’re with have this, weird, SAVIOR complex, and, because we don’t want to break the other person’s heart, we allow them, to believe, that we need their, saving, and over time, everything goes, bad…

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