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Jessica Leigh Apr 2014
I want to convince her that this is wrong
That she shouldn't do this to herself
But I don't know what to do
To convince her of this truth
So I end up doing the same thing.
Jessica Leigh Apr 2014
It feels right to not belong
Next to my name
Because it never feels
Like you are talking to me
When you call it out.
Jessica Leigh Apr 2014
What would you do if I told you that I couldn't look you in the eyes today, not because of your hand on my leg or my tendency to be awkward, but for the fact that I saw your arm and I can't stand the idea that you hate your own skin that much to tear it open and it makes me a hypocrite, I know, but you deserve better than that and you need to get better and you told me that you did it once and you can do it again, but it doesn't seem like there is an effort, and if there is, it means you are worse, and I don't like your arm looking anything like mine and I wish I could take this pain away and I would do anything to convince you to try to stop, and I would be willing to lose everything I have just so you would stop causing yourself harm, or better yet, not feel the need to because if it is still an option, you are just resisting and not living and you need to do that and, no, we are not just put on this world for others because otherwise we wouldn't tear apart our flesh to feel something, anything, because we have trained ourselves not to feel, and I don't want to wait until August or January, because you will have moved on, or I will have, or one of us will be dead or so cut up that we cannot look at each other without weeping and it's funny if you think I can't cry because I have sobbed far too many times over you and the idea that the sickness that lives on me is still inside of you somewhere, and I just want us to be okay, and for us to not lie, and for you to smile and for me to smile back, no matter what, and for me to kiss you without it being insane?
Jessica Leigh Apr 2014
Sometimes I don't want
To talk about
How my day has been
So I ignore your texts
And I cut off your calls
Because that's all you seem
To want to talk about
But you don't seem to understand
That how my day went
Usually has something
To do with how I always
Feel
And I'm tired of
Focusing on that.
I'm sorry, Daniel.
I just can't
Talk to you like
Everything is okay.
Not when I'm trying
To shut all of you
Out.
Jessica Leigh Apr 2014
Someone please talk to me.
One of you.
And let me talk about what is in my head.
What is hurting me
Because it will be the fifth time
If I leave this bed
And my leg hurts so bad.
I need to tell you this.
Someone.
Someone.
Please listen.
I don't want to feel like a burden.
But I'm just ready to let go.
And I don't want to write.
Because it seems like
The words are jumbled on those pages.
Please just hear me out.
And let me say that
I'm...
Tired...
Broken...
Hurt...
Alone...
And being alone
Is how all of this started.
Jessica Leigh Apr 2014
I don't want to be me anymore
I want to be someone
Different from who you all know.
So here is my new name.
At least on the internet
Because I can't stand to be called
Jess and I always wanted to
Name a girl Kori,
But I don't really think I'll
Want kids, so who better
To name than myself?
Jessica Leigh Apr 2014
At midnight, I hastily
Tore threw a book
Trying to find the things that
Keep me some kind of
Sane
But I couldn't find them
And I wanted to yell
And I fell to the floor
To search for my home
Only to find them on
Page 111 of
My favorite book.
And at 12:10
This morning
It happened the first time.

I stumbled away from
The line I had left
And I picked up
The thing that hold
My tiny life and I escape
To a little box
In the corner and I
Pulled the new one
Off of the page
And it happened for
The second time.

I threw a different
Book my bag and
Walked away again
Only to find myself back
Where I had been half
An hour before
And I locked the door
Then I opened that book
To page 111
Making it happen
For the third time today.

I took my baby with me
With my best friend
By my side
Pulling at my hair
And I went to a room
To put them down
I left both of them there,
Turned back and grabbed the book
Which was in a bag,
Walked past a room
With one of the most
Important people
In my life sitting at a desk,
And walked down the hall.
I locked the door again,
Opened to page 111
And it happened for
The fourth time.

Fifth will be when
I escape from this car.
Sixth will be
Before I shower.
And there won't be a
Seventh.
Not until it
Is the ninth.
At 12:10.
And I start
All over again.
For the idea
Of anonymity,
Call it a bible.
But wait,
I believe in
God now...
Call it a Perk.
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