21/Gender Nonconforming My name is Bailey, I am twenty years old and I've been writing poetry since I could write. I also write music and the occasional story or essay. I love people and all of their diverse talents...and I also love you (:
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"Listen with the ear of your heart" . Helping Others Migrate and Evolve . "We met with a goodbye kiss" . Be kind to yourself . Steps . No reason not to run . You messed with the hardest . "Pick your chin up off the floor" . Discouraged . I hope I'm pretty . First video . Coming out . Fairly simple . Soft spoken . I realized after I said it that it was true . Therapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . "Let me stop you right there" . My hand feels like winter . High on independence . Ink bleeds through the soft, soft paper . "Injustice anywhere affects justice everywhere" .
She died . You don't need to take care of glass bottles . What does moving on mean? . "We never lose our demons...we only learn to live above them" . It hurts too much . "Race is the child of racism, not the father" . Isn't it okay to cry? . "Watch your broken dreams dance in and out of the beams of a neon moon" . Packing . Somebody help me . Brent Jones . Back seat . Painting and postponed . Brotherfest . "I am you and you are me and we are we" . I don't wanna go . Move out day, move in day .
I get it now . Pale wild flower . Very soft . Babies put life in places you thought were already alive . "At the end of the day, there's another day dawning" . Kissing too early . "A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child" . Adress and ease . Did I ever stop hating myself? . Sunshine soldier . I think I started ******* up when I started trying to be like everyone else . Empowered . From room 506 to room 323 . A clean slate . The good dreams . Shaken, stirred, staying still .
Your house water is still in my cup . Singing songs you didn't know you knew the words to . Prom . Something about this isn't right . I am plagued by constant fear and stress . Retreat . Check up . Resolution . Drummer boy . Adoption . I saw a scared little girl in the mirror and couldn't look away . Graduation . White roses and flexibility . "The hippest place to be is under a rock" . Changes in strength . Why does it mean so much when you say it, but so little when others do? . I love the smell of simple hand soap . Grip . Achievement vs accomplishment . "The kind of morning that lasts all afternoon" . Not here, not now...someday, somehow .
Zebras and old western movies and segregation and newspaper... You'd like to think that I'd like to think that they are real, But nothing is that simple. Nothing is so fuzzy and dated and clarified. Because he smiled as he smacked and she cried tears when she sympathized. The world is not this or that and emotions are not happy or sad and people are not him or her. It is not black and white or even the greyest gray. Its saturated with colors that make me oh so dizzy and lost. And I begged him for the answers he did not have, And I flooded her with questions, never thinking of the consequences that came with partial responses. I called out for peace, though the war is inside me. Constant debates on what is wrong and what is right, but nothing Nothing is black and white. Times New Roman stares at me, glimmering brilliantly. I am not two halves and they are not monsters and you are not angels. The voices in my head are not so generous. They would speak into crackling microphones and tell me how unspoken language works. They are with the times and so am I, but I am universal where nothing else is. There are no opposites. Nothing can help me but my refusal to accept everything as anything other than a spectrum of somethings.
"The only permanent thing is change" . I get a lot of mail these days . "If you always put it in the middle, it'll always be in the middle" . David Henry . Emergency room . Send for me . Weeping . I know exactly what I'm doing, and I'm going to get what I want . The potential of grass . "If you worry, you suffer twice" . Opal floral . This is not a love story, this is a coming of age story . Beautiful and filthy . Messy . Wail . Passionate hands . "Let them laugh in my face, I don't care" . Tom foolery . Ethan Guerin . S(kiddish) . "Gone out the window" . Surprised at myself . "I've been waiting my whole life to love someone like you, and by accident you loved me too" . It's over but it's okay . Submitting to strangers . "Even when you think you're not good enough, somewhere someone does" . And the trolleys start up .