A Battle Hymn for Myself (When You Feel Attacked, Chant This in the Car)

Dedicated to all the people dealing with negative people in their lives. Screw them. You’re awesome. Chant this, scream this, and get your emotional, psychological shields up! Those toxic assholes cannot defeat you.

Screw. You.
You are trying to steal what does not belong to you.
You have no right to my stuff, my person, my future, my happiness.
I choose my direction, and I choose to fight,
to defend myself against your attempted tyranny.
The hatred you spew at me
will not destroy me, you piece of shit.
You callous, vile, narcissistic parasite
trying to suck my energy. You just plain suck.
You will not bring me down. I will lift myself up.
I will gather my forces, community, allies around me
not to attack — you are not worth that —
but to make me resilient, oblivious
to your attempts to distract me from the good the world has laid before me,
a banquet that you will not taste with me.
I will savor the blessings before me:
the goodness in my soul,
my beauty of my brain,
the happiness I can create without your presence.
My friends, even strangers who have wrapped me in their arms,
shield and give me comfort in humanity,
and there is none in you.
I have become more full into my own being,
and there is beauty here.
So get out.
Get out of my life. You are not on my mind
except when I groan at your tantrums.
I’d call you child,
but that demeans good children. You troll.
You are not worth hating.
I love myself too much to dwell on you.
I have things to do, joy to find,
and the roadblocks you attempt to put in front of me will not be borne.
Have you not met me?
I am strong.
I am fierce.
I will endure.
I don’t have to put up with your toxicity. I choose to be free.
I choose to love myself and others, leaving you in the dust.
You keep testing me, you will see how strong I am,
how invincible I am made,
and I keep making myself better every day.
Today is good. Blessed am I.