In response to my fears over social media

In response to my fears over social media - by K.D. DeFehr

To get a thicker skin, my therapist told me,

you don’t just stand in the sun and let your flesh scorch all day. That way, you’ll burn.

To get a thicker skin, you must expose yourself to the heat regularly, only in small, controlled amounts.

I thought, that’s easy to say

when you’re not addicted to the fire

and the way it screams out, Treason!,

at the tender love and care approach

to divulging what’s in my soul.

Still, I came home to wrap myself in a blanket;

accepted its wholesome warmth.

I wasn’t trying only to accept myself.

I was trying to be a butterfly.

Thought I already was a butterfly.

Breathed in, change

Breathed out, isn’t easy.

Wondered what would happen

if I took her advice;

learned to take my sweet, slow time

in rearranging those words.

Isn’t

change

easy?

The internet isn’t the sun

anyway.

I am my own sun.

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