art credit: Drama Free Zone by Jo Claire Hall – Drama Free Zone Digital Art

as painful as it is to admit
the more I gave in to drama
the less of me survived
I became a shriveled mass
a dull, lifeless nothingness
ruled by anger and defeat
the longer I fed the drama monkeys
the less time I had to create
to write, to inspire, to reflect
on the kind of life I deserve
and so, as hard as it may sound
it was easy enough to do –
I just stopped feeding them