It's so hard for me
to express the way I feel
I speak with my body
as I speak with my words
I've written this story, and
I've been waiting to show you
Wont you come closer
walk this way
just take my hand
I'll show you the way
All these open doors
You haven't a clue
which one to stray
but that's okay
Let me show you
Let my body tell you
Everything my words
just cannot say
let this silence
lead you to me
through the dark
moon lit forest
follow me
out beyond
all those city lights
I'll share with you
welcome you
into my little world
where hands touching
are really lips speaking
and shortness of breath
become beautiful moments
you'll never want to forget
you don't need words to speak
Sometimes words just don't suffice
for what it is you're trying to say
show me, just show me your way
My body is waiting for you
to show me all of the things
you hadn't the courage to say
Our story isn't over yet
It's up to you, if you feel the same way
© 2013 Christina Jackson

All of these days
all of these nights
so many people
sit alone
feeling empty
inside
If I had
one wish
I would
take away
everyone's strife
put it in a box
call Pandora
and tell her
to come get
her **** back
we don't
want it
anymore
greedy people
Epimethius
really should have
listened to his brother
never accept gifts from Zeus
for they'll always hold thunder
© 2013 Christina Jackson

It's been a while
Since I've seen you smile
Where have you been?
Won't you just stay a while?
© 2013 Christina Jackson

You should be afraid of your dreams
don't let them wither and rot away.
Don't forget about them,
after fifty years are done and gone
it's never too late; and though this battle may never be won.
Just live, live, laugh and have some fun!
© 2013 Christina Jackson

Don't speak of me, the way that you do.
Hiss my name through your teeth,
do what you will, I bequeathed
The grains, the grains of sand.
Hidden, hidden beneath earths grand,
glorious, terrifying innards.
Where the seeds are seeded
and the roots are weeded.
Deep, deep down below, to the magma,
to the core, we go!
I told you, and I told you once before.
This, the only adventure, I'll never know.
How mystifying, the world I didn't explore.
How weak I was, I couldn't let go.
Just go! Wherever I'd like to go.
To a world, a world unknown.
Buried inside, hidden deep down to my core.
It lies in wake, waiting, for that one special day.
Release these demons, release this pain.
How can it be, that I'm living in vain?
My life summed up in words
and jumbled letters on a page.
My life has been nothing,
but ink and torn paper.
© 2013 Christina Jackson

I want to float
on a boat
towards a
sea of your love,
and ride
the waves.
I'll hold on
tight, don't
worry, I won't
release these reins.
This trip
is so long
and I keep
wondering
how much farther
I must go
to reach you.
But I paddle on
hoping I haven't
missed the signs
of you and me
written up in the sky.
This sea is so grand
as your heart
it withstands
the gusts'
as they dance
eventually
bringing me
a little bit closer
to the shore
I've longed
so long for.
So many
passing ships
but only one
holds the beacon.
Striking match
makes flame
Finally revealing
you truly are
the yin
to my yang
© 2013 Christina Jackson

Love will be my guiding light
Revealed to me on the darkest of nights
Ever a reminder of brighter times.
All the hurt and all the pain,
will eventually fade away.
My wounds may never heal
but I will not let them stray
I will not let them wallow away
Forever I'll remember, all of those days
I spent bruised and scarred.
Torn and tattered, but not once
did I shatter! not once did I break!'
Everything in me, made of stone.
You cannot break, the unbreakable.
You cannot muffle this flame within'
Try as you might, but you will never win.
The strong, they'll prevail in the end.
© 2013 Christina Jackson