Not to be brought about by possesions.
Though it looks like now no one understands.

Happiness lays in the trees, humming along as the leaves sway.
It forms in the sounds you hear distantly while you sit, and breathe.

Happiness comes to those who are open to it; not to those trying to force it.

Our bodies float to keep us breathing
While our minds **** us from within

Oh how we forget
That everything we are is
Set by: what we choose

I don’t need flowers
  to have a garden

I just need seeds
  where promise blossoms

I don’t need pieces
  to solve a puzzle

I just need words
  their teeth unmuzzled

I don’t need time
  its grand illusion

I just need space
  re-entry’s fusion

I don’t need liars
  defying reason

I just need truth
—my faith in season

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2017)

I've been in detox, I think  three times
Each time the idea wasn't​ mine
I did it because of what others were thinking
Me, I wanted to keep on drinking

It will never work if it's not your idea
Penned in by others thoughts and fears
Then one day a moment of clarity just hit
I realised I was sick of being sick

From that moment on, it wasn't so hard
Although my past has left me scarred
I still like a drink now and then
But now I know when to say "
"when "

Nothing that abides in the dark
Should be trusted
For only in the light
Can truth be seen

I don't want to sleep anymore because when I sleep things will remain the same even if I want them to change.

I want to tell you,
Everything,
But I'll never,
Get the chance,
Because,
When I see you,
(Almost never),
The words catch,
In my throat,
My hands,
Won't stop shaking,
And when I look at you,
Your eyes burn me,
Alive.

Why does my life feel like a test I didn't study for?