Hyde's Bride

A Moment Seen

Hello *****,

To my instructor’s outdated and again insensitive comment, “employers expect blah blah blah…” I replied that I would not work for one who would not support my succeeding despite disability and life emergencies.

I guess that means I must aim for eventual return to self-employment – hahaha!

Dodge script-implied auto retort of, “Well no one would put up with ‘this behavior’ or hire you!”

I did not complete the project by the arbitrarily-shortened timeline, but made quality, complex progress to where can be seen developing capabilities, and I took screen shots showing expansive developmental progress.

I am biting my tongue and trying to “check” my brain to not let out a torent of vexed verbality over others’ projections and unrealistic expectations of my performance.

It is the kind of subtle but insistive passive-aggressive and insidious gaslighting outdated messaging designed to make a person turn upon their self as if they are the problem.

Those projecting are likely even blind to what they are doing, after likely surviving such treatment in the workforce and life circumstances – coming from their own personal background “traumas” and having to self modify to their own detriment.

No thank you.

I will not join in being a mouthpiece – nor another puppet forced into compliance of dancing to and passing on this negative message self-defaming encoding.

We are all “carriers” of brain washing viral behavior imprints to some extent.

It is up to each one of us to decide to wrestle with these internal demons turning us against ourselve;, not let them pressure us into infecting others; and break the chains of propagation being continually passed onward to future generations.

And now, back to our previously scheduled programs…

Hyde's Bride

Crazymaking

When people project onto others, they can end up having the effect of gaslighting.

Then, when the person goes into therapy having been wrongly accused and “persecuted,” tbey might at last “show their “teeth” in their responsive defense to get out the “heat” in what is supposed to be a safe environment.

But, because what the therapist then sees mirrors the projections – which were false in the first place but had driven the innocent person into an internal frenzy – the therapist then reinforces this projection’s reality by admonishing!

Hyde's Bride, Spoken Word

Hyde’s Bride: I Won’t Abide (Vocals Pending)

“For the good of the Realm.”

That’s what they always say.

Then, it’s expected that the person they claim to love will stay there holding court for them, supporting them while they go off and breed with some demoiselle of “proper ancestry.”

Well…

No.

“For the good of the Realm” be damned.

I shall not dither about waiting for the one I have loved with all of my heart to cherish me as much as I cherish him.

Being handed off – traded – for younger skin and womb that has not borne children is the greatest insult ever to a Woman.

(It needed more venom; more anger; more assertion)

Hyde's Bride

Hyde’s Bride: Idlewyld

Bereft and somewhere deep insane, I wandered the streets between parlors of damnation and intermittent toilets tossed from buckets as streaming liquid sheets of putrescence.

Stumbling lost, dismissed as just another dreg for the dogs to feed upon or the wretched to bed, I was somehow left unaccosted and fumbeled through those darkly smoke-ridden, dismal streets until they one day just faded away into the open, rolling green vales of countryside.

As the rain washed away all traces of stench from me as if cleansing my soul for redemption, I happened upon an elderly farmer needing help with his dairy cow’s milking.

Since then, I bathe in the light of sunshine.

Comedy, Hyde's Bride, Songs

“As I Like It”

Contemporary Show Tune
By Athena Stairs
December 18, 2023

I like not having to be perfect
For some guy who’s not worth it

I can walk with a swagger
And not care for the latter

I can look upon my face
Without any makeup splatters

I like being in my own body
With my own choice to be good or naughty

Escuse as I digress
My hair it is a mess

And in my middle age
I can be haughty

I like having freedom of expression
Without going to a counseling session

I can say what I like
Without worrying if it’s right

I don’t need your help
I’ve got my own critic

I like when I get up in the morning
There’s nobody to tell me I’ve been snoring

I don’t have to cower down
For worrying that you’ll frown

At any imperfection
Where you’re looking

I like saying no to the callous
Men who seek the prize of my chalice

You can go away
It’s sunny out today

I don’t need you to compete
With my prowess

I like being happily expressive
It’s so much finer than to be quite pensive

Forgive me if I’m proud
When there’s no one around

I don’t need your vote
My life is kind of nifty

I like being totally chaotic
I get to play and be my own methodic

I can flit to and fro
Wherever I may go

In grandiose
I almost feel bionic

I like being subtly distractive
I realize now no other way I can live

So get out of my way
I’ve got something to say

Though I pine for love
I guess it’s time I shelf it!

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A spontaneously created show tune that I came up with one day to help offset the pressures to conform as a woman in today’s society.

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