‼️ Attention ‼️
This is your warning.
Your bulletin board memo.
Your taped-up flyer in a breakroom that smells like burnt coffee and bullshit.
***
Effective immediately,
I am no longer eating shit with a smile on my face.
***
Not for peace.
Not for optics.
Not for your comfort, your approval,
or your fragile delusions of control.
***
The practice of swallowing disrespect
and calling it “being the bigger person”
has been officially discontinued.
The grin is gone.
The plate is overturned.
***
For years, I complied.
I chewed carefully.
I thanked you for the serving.
I told myself it was character-building,
that grit tastes bad by design.
That policy was a lie.
***
Let it be known:
I am done nodding while being talked over.
Done laughing when the joke is me.
Done digesting blame that belongs to systems and inept minds that speak in circles.
***
Any attempt to repackage shit as “just how it is”
will be returned to sender.
📦
Please update your expectations accordingly.
***
I will now be responding in real time.
I will be leaving rooms mid-sentence.
I will be saying “no” without a paragraph attached.
I will not cushion truth to protect egos
that have never once protected me.
***
If this makes you uncomfortable—
good.
That means the notice reached its intended audience.
***
Questions, complaints, or accusations of “changed behavior”
may be filed directly into the void.
I will not be monitoring that inbox.
📥
This announcement is not an overreaction.
It is an overdue refusal.
It is what happens when survival stops pretending to be gratitude.
***
Read it twice.
Post it where you need to.
Memorize it if you’re used to crossing lines.
***
No further statements will be issued.
About the Creator
SUEDE the poet
English Teacher by Day. Poet by Scarlight. Tattooed Storyteller. Trying to make beauty out of bruises and meaning out of madness. I write at the intersection of faith, psychology, philosophy, and the human condition.
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I love this line:"It is what happens when survival stops pretending to be gratitude." Such powerful words. Should be the anthem of the people who are just done. Great work!