Poems for the Signs

by Michaela Angemeer

hello earth placements, i know you're mainly the ones reading this.

LMAO CALLED OUT

my life is beautiful but i can only focus on the spot on the wall

i started holding other people to the standards i hold myself to turns out no one could meet them either

i’m learning to stop putting people on pedestals cause when they fall i’m the one who breaks

i no longer have people in my life who do not do what they say they are going to do. i am done with checking in. i am done with reminders. i no longer take on the mental exhaustion that comes with being reliable for another person. i call in self-sufficiency. i call in reliability. i call in competency, consistency, the ability to follow through. all of my connections are filled with ease. we are responsible for ourselves and we benefit from a mutual, natural ebb and flow.