It’s Been Awhile

You used to take every chance to say I love you
Now all I hear is silence
I hope there’s a message in this bottle
Saying it’s okay to end like this
But you know bad habits were never my friends

You are gone
But you’re still breathing
It’s been awhile
Yet I’m still grieving
Nothing makes sense
Why the hell am I still bleeding?

I wonder if I cross you mind
Like you cross mine
The flower you once made grow there
Are covered in thorns or decayed
But their roots still stretch everywhere

Long gone are the nights we stayed up
Sharing secrets like they were gold
Always reminding each other we’d be okay
We’d be sharing our bed made for two someday

You are gone
But you’re still breathing
It’s been awhile
Yet I’m still grieving
Nothing makes sense
Why the hell am I still bleeding?

The universe brought us together
The distance broke us apart
I’m sorry I wasn’t closer
I’m sorry you were so far
(I’ll always love you)

©Jessi Wilson

Don’t Let Me Fall

Laying in bed at night
I can’t help but press my hands to my head
These thoughts I have
I guess I’ll sleep when I’m dead

The people around me think they know who I am
But I don’t even know who I am
Between what everyone thinks of me
And what I think of myself
I’m lost

My backs against this crumbling wall
I don’t want to let my loved ones down
But god, god I’m afraid to fall
My backs against this crumbling wall
I don’t want to let my loved ones down
But god, god I’m afraid to fall

Too much has been said
Too little has been done
For the ones like me
Days become hard to overcome

Everything around me is breaking down
I’m trying to pick up the pieces
But you know what they say
Once broken, nothing ever looks the same

My backs against this crumbling wall
I don’t want to let my loved ones down
But god, god I’m afraid to fall
(I’m afraid to fall)

©Jessi Wilson

Believe It To See It?

I remember even as a kid I thought too much. I used to wonder if what I saw in the mirror was really what I looked like. or if my cp affected how I viewed myself and no one had the heart to tell me. That’s a weird thing for a child to think, which is probably why I never told anyone. I’m curious about that theory again.

My self-image has been so pore lately. I pick myself apart like buzzards do with prey. Is my mind a predator, and I’m the prey? As I just had that epiphany, I realize how utterly messed-up it is. Your mind is everything. If its against you, then what?

I went and had some photos taken today because my parents wanted “senior pictures”. The photographer is a friend so she thought it’d be cool for us to do them in front of the graffiti walls downtown. I had anxiety, which is nothing new. She kept on showing me pictures as we went. She kept on telling how “gorgeous’’ I was. I DON’T UNDERSTAND. I don’t understand how everyone else can see such beauty, and I see such…such flaws. I speak, I believe that differences make you even more beautiful. Why can’t I seem to believe that about myself? How am I supposed to make people view me as being perfect the way that I am, if I can’t even make myself?

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