# @mishighpriestess on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLgKNrgOVqN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59807989-mishighpriestess-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-29T23:04:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Misty Dawn Rodriguez (@mishighpriestess) — https://gondola.cc/mishighpriestess

## Caption

“Who’s Responding?”
by Both Hands on the Mic

Who’s that talkin’ through your teeth, love?
That sharp tongue ain’t you,
that’s the wound—you dressed in armor
but still bleeding through silk.

Every time you clap back,
a child in you cries.
Every time you ghost ‘em,
a ghost in you rises.

You say, “they triggered me.”
Nah, baby—
they revealed you.

You ain’t mad at them.
You mad at the way your daddy never saw you.
You mad at your mama’s silence,
how she swallowed her own truth and taught you to do the same.

You think that lover left you broken?
Nah—
they just uncovered where you were already cracked.
And instead of pouring gold in the fracture,
you pour another drink.
You block, you run,
you blame, you numb—
but never once ask:

“Who’s responding right now?”

Is it the one who learned love meant surviving?
Or the one who’s learning
love means staying
with yourself
long enough
to become
whole.

You bring babies into battlefields
hoping they’ll bring peace.
Call it legacy—
when it’s just pain
inherited like property.

We build families on fault lines
then act surprised when everything breaks.

But here’s the gospel:

You can stop it.
You can be the one who doesn’t pass it on.
Sit with the silence
until it sings.
Peel off the bandages,
let the air kiss the wound.
Because healing hurts,
but so does hiding.

Next time you find yourself mid-conflict,
heart racing, ego raging,
stop.
And whisper:

“Who’s responding?”
The healed me?
Or the history?
The now me?
Or the need I never got?

Because nothing’s by chance.
It’s curriculum.
It’s ceremony.
It’s the universe asking
if you’re ready to finally come home
to you.

Let’s heal, family.
Let’s shift the signal.
Let’s be the last ones
to carry what never belonged to us.

Let’s be the first ones
to love ourselves
enough
to respond
as truth.

#BothHandsOnTheMic #HealingInRealTime #TriggerToTruth #AncestralAlchemy #InnerChildRising

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healinginrealtime, triggertotruth, ancestralalchemy, bothhandsonthemic, innerchildrising

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