I'm so sick of being
Little
      Tiny
            Accused of not understanding

Told that I will understand as I get older
As I grow

  It makes me want to take the advice you gave me and use it
To make my table even.

Maybe burn it in the fireplace for warmth or laugh at it when I'm down to make myself feel better.

Give it to my dog to chase or shove it in the attic with all the useless things I own

Because I have told you so many times before I will not shut myself off the way you do and become numb to everything I think will drag me under.

I'm going to stand over it with my foot against it's throat and tell it to *******, whether it's my fears or my anxiety or my doubts  I'm going to chase it with a match and burn it alive or put a bag over it's head until it stops telling me what the **** I'm going to do.

I just keep saying to breathe
And I'm not sure of who
I'm telling it to anymore

I keep telling them to breathe
Breathe because you're falling apart
Breathe so you can't quit.

Please don't quit on me
This is why I can't breathe
Don't quit on me

I can't quit breathing
Because if I do
I'll be losing the only thing I've ever done steadily

S h e
with her lips swollen
with sadness

"I want you to be mine."
You can never
Own a girl
Who belongs solely to
Herself.

She
is
fresh air,
and I
had
forgotten I
had not been
breathing well.

She
breathes the sunset
back into
me
and suddenly
things are vivid once again

She
is the cold
when the sun
and I
have fought until the night.

I
never thought
that one person could
make the stars seem trivial,
but now I know,
even the stars
wonder about
her.

Young
Boys and girls
Say they don't have a place
In this world.
Yet,
They were born into it
Without question.
Does the Earth
Ever wonder about
Its existence?
Or just
Live
And
Let
live