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Oct 2018 · 223
You knew
JC Oct 2018
The weight of your burdens were to heavy for my shoulders to carry.
I know you never asked me to carry them but you knew that's what I do.
You knew that I take on the burdens of others
the pain of others.
You knew my heart was on my sleeve, my mind pretty **** naive, and my arms wide open and welcoming.
You knew I'd carry yours whether you asked me to or not.
You knew.
It's still all of my fault for trying and failing
but you knew.
Apr 2018 · 134
Constellations shine
JC Apr 2018
The night sky symbolizes me.
In even the darkest of my days, the constellations of hope, unexplainable joy, and immeasurable love shine.
Outlining as a reminder, of what is meaningful and still matters when the sun is no longer shining.
Apr 2018 · 145
Space
JC Apr 2018
It's not enough to say I like my space
because
I love it.
I need it.
Trying to decide if I'm becoming withdrawn, or if I really just want space.
Apr 2018 · 140
Break my heart
JC Apr 2018
Somebody break my heart so I have something to write about.
I'm a better writer when I'm sad for some reason.
Apr 2018 · 138
learning
JC Apr 2018
I've been learning that just because I bend over backward and go out of my way constantly for others, doesn't mean they'll do the same for me. Truth is I was okay with no one going out of their own way for me. I tend to be the type to "do it all" and blame myself for any less than great outcomes. However now it matters to me because I ask for help and all of the sudden nobody can be found.
JC Nov 2017
Understand that I let you, let me go.
-J.C
Nov 2017 · 177
Isn’t me
JC Nov 2017
The passenger seat isn't the same anymore right?
You kiss her hand and imagine it's my mine.
She doesn't say things randomly
"I wish I could fly".
She doesn't admire you with the same eyes.
My love is pure
My intentions are real
Do you put a hand on her thigh
Look her in her eye
And tell her how incredible she is?
Do you take her face softly in your hands, stroke her cheek, and tell her she's
so
beautiful.

-J.C.
Oct 2017 · 195
Wishful wings
JC Oct 2017
I wish I could fly.
-J.C.
Oct 2017 · 209
A thank you to all poets
JC Oct 2017
Thank you for sharing the most vulnerable parts of your heart and soul with me. It's a privilege getting to read all the beautiful truths you have experienced.
- J.C.
Oct 2017 · 148
No longer
JC Oct 2017
Thoughts of you touching another no longer taunt me.
I've let you go.
I've set myself free.
-J.C.
Oct 2017 · 175
Don't date me I'm a writer
JC Oct 2017
Don't date me I'm a writer.
I will spill your..
everything
onto the lines of my open notebook .
They will know the color of your eyes.
The feel of your touch.
The imperfect parts of your mind.
No secret, major or minor detail can escape.
My recall is too good and my pencil too fast.
I will read in between the lines of you to fill the papers empty spaces
So I'm warning you
Don't date me I'm a writer.
Oct 2017 · 160
Remembering all I've done
JC Oct 2017
I should never think I wasn't enough when I was everything and a little more.
-J.C.
Oct 2017 · 169
No thank you
JC Oct 2017
I'm not sure what I want from you
but I sure as hell don't want you back.

- J.C.
Oct 2017 · 224
I'm good
JC Oct 2017
I used to think I'd lose myself if I lost you.

i was so wrong - J.C.
Oct 2017 · 186
Me first
JC Oct 2017
I still like me even when I'm a heartbroken mess.
I'd still choose me even if I miss you.
I come first.
Oct 2017 · 199
No time
JC Oct 2017
I don't have the time or energy to mourn lost loves.
You weren't for me.
Period.
- J.C.
Oct 2017 · 153
Self love
JC Oct 2017
I went wrong in love when I thought loving you could heal all the lost love in me.

i needed to love me first - J.C.
Oct 2017 · 192
To love me
JC Oct 2017
To love me is to not need a reminder on how I should be loved.


I showed you from the very beginning - J.C.
Sep 2017 · 248
Heart
JC Sep 2017
This heart I have
is my biggest strength,
though you see it
as my weakness.
Love is my superpower and feeling is the cape I wear proudly around my shoulders.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 231
Happiness
JC Sep 2017
I hope that in whichever year it is
and whatever age you are
You always ask yourself if how you're living
what you're doing
and who you're with
makes you happy.
Strive for your happiness.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 175
Water my pain
JC Sep 2017
Growth requires rain,
so let my tears precipitate and seep
into the soils of my pain.
From there I'll grow.
Grow blossoms of new understanding.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 251
Leaves of life
JC Sep 2017
As the leaves fall indicating the seasons change
I reflect on my life's change.
And like these leaves dying,
a few of my relationships are dying
my old ways are dying
previous values are dying
what I thought I wanted is dying
I mourn these losses, though I understand it's vitality to my growth.
These leaves are dying because it's necessary
and even though the tree will be barren for a small while
it will grow new, wiser then it's old.
I trust that is what's happening to me.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 191
Runnin
JC Sep 2017
The one I want to run to
is the one I 'm running away from

- J.C.
Sep 2017 · 109
Regret
JC Sep 2017
Close your eyes and remember how I loved you.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 156
The truth is..
JC Sep 2017
The truth is you're the one who left but can't stand to stay gone.
The truth is I am the one paying pains price for your broken commitments.
The truth is this is what you wanted.
The truth is I always loved you more.
- J.C.
Sep 2017 · 372
Diagnosis.. Heartache
JC Sep 2017
I've contracted a disease of the heart.
Thankfully it can be healed in time.

heartache - J.C.
Sep 2017 · 660
Friends
JC Sep 2017
Like Rachel and Ross
So different, but so in love.
The beauty and the brains.
It doesn't always work but the love
the love
pulls through every time.
Maybe someday you'll be my Ross,
but
maybe you won't.
-J.C.
Have to watch "Friends" to really understand.
Sep 2017 · 211
Healthy healing
JC Sep 2017
You decide what you need to heal.
If that means you cut ties with someone entirely,
then that's what you do.
You are the protector of your peace.
You decide what's best for you.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 175
False support
JC Sep 2017
"I'm so happy for you."
I'm not so sure that you really are.
You expected me to crumble without you and because I'm not, you just can't sit still.
You can try and fake steady hands but I saw the tapping of your foot and there's no denying.
It was no picnic trying to stay afloat of my pain.
But I did.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 162
Unsure
JC Sep 2017
You're quite lost for someone who thinks they're found.
-J.C.
Unsure of what you want
Sep 2017 · 191
Poetic healing
JC Sep 2017
I write all night sometimes because I'm scared to take my fingers away from the key board.
I would rather pour out my pains as words and form sentences of explanation, then to lay awake at night restless from gnawing thoughts.
For sometimes I work out my pain so beautifully that it's no longer painful to me.
-J.C.
I write because it's therapeutic
Sep 2017 · 185
Heartbreak Healing
JC Sep 2017
I'll cry excessively over the memories that burn in my head
and I'll sleep often just to escape them.
I'll even be irritated because what I think I need nobody but you can give me.
However..
I'll one day be healed of heart break.
Nothing can last forever
both the good and bad.
-J.C.
Going through a fresh break up.
Sep 2017 · 537
Someday you'll be okay
JC Sep 2017
Someday your stomach won't drop
your eyes won't cry
and your heart won't pound
at the sound of his name.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 190
I miss
JC Sep 2017
I miss you missing me

-J.C
Sep 2017 · 229
Stings
JC Sep 2017
My vices won't save me from the memories of us
I beg them to come to my rescue
but all they do is twist the knife
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 206
I wish to forget
JC Sep 2017
I can't close my eyes for too long.
I might see those brown eyes shine,
I might be confronted by that one smile you showed only when you laughed,
I might remember how it felt to kiss you,
I might hear that car karaoke voice sing again,
I might smell your distinct cologne.
I just
.
.
can't close my eyes for too long.
-J.C.
So direct I may as well print it out, put it into an envelope, and mail it to him.
Sep 2017 · 300
Same old cycle
JC Sep 2017
I wish to love fearlessly and whole heartedly.
Why does it come with so much pain?
I end up burning bridges of loves I thought were solid under all pressures.
Then I lay down my heavy bricks of hurt and begin to rebuild my walls of protection.
-J.C.
Sep 2017 · 207
I can be okay without you
JC Sep 2017
If you think these tears come from not wanting to be alone,
you're mistaken.
I enjoy my solitude.
These tears come from the promises you made but couldn't keep.
- J.C.
Break ups make great poetry.

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