Time to pick myself back up;
Rock bottom has been around long enough.
Find my drive;
Will to remain alive.
I have not existed long enough;
To pronounce, “I give up.”
Life can be rough,
But I am tough.
 
Through alcoholic Father,
Schizophrenic mother;
Multiple drug addictions;
Now also legal convictions.
I am a Jackson

Time to take drastic action.
My current age is 25;
Not old enough to even really be alive.
My heart has only gone through pain;
God's finally saying the time is here to gain.
All the gaps in this beaten heart;
Is finally time to heal before totally apart.
We will all fall.
The pain sometimes makes us desire to crawl.
Through the pain we stand up crying;
Do not forget to never stop applying.
I have had to find out it is ok to cry;
If you learn to let that time go by.

-C. Jackson.
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