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Jess Hays Jul 2016
The truth is I'm not okay
How should I be with you away
A daddy's little girl from far away
You were suppo... I hoped you'd be back today
But you're not.
I'm not too old to be tucked in
But I feel like I'm on my own...
Like I'm in college, not at home
Because its not home with just mom and I
It's obvious when I look into her eyes
Or stare into a mirror at mine.
I miss you daddy.
You've been away for far too long...
And you're still not done with being gone.
I'd never let you know from so far away,
But I wish you were here today
Jess Hays Jul 2016
"If one of the things you believe in,
Is that this world's an ugly place,
You must have never gone outside at night,
And stared up into space,
You haven't felt the way the air changes,
In the minutes before it rains,
Or watched the world pass by below,
Out the window of a plane,
You've never been awake so early,
That you see the moment the sun stats to rise,
And you've never laid with your back on the grass,
And made shapes with the clouds in the sky,
But maybe if you've done all this,
But still don't believe it's true,
It's because you can't see all the beauty,
That I see when I look at you."
Jess Hays Jul 2016
It's taken all of me not to read those faded old letters
I've tried with all I have in me, to take off the ring I got from her.
And it's taking just about all of me not to break in tears.
If I had a just a little more in me
Some sort of power to bring her here to me
I'd do it all the same, but differently
I don't want to forget,
But I don't want to remember goodbye as part of it.
Jess Hays Jul 2016
Second year at a new school
I should be accustomed to it
But the fact is, most of them are strangers.

Second year should mean a second chance
But her friendship ring is leaving its mark on my hand
And my young years are drifting away at the sand

It's high tide...
To resurrect my mind into this new time
But new is different and different is unknown
And the unknown is scary.

I don't know how to think beyond
Those who are now distant characters in my storyline.
I'm hesitating..
Because new is different and thus unknown..
And I'm not sure if I can trust what I don't know.
Jess Hays Jul 2016
One look around,
Plastered everywhere like a boomerang that never calms down,
Hypocritical words and false perfection.

Coloring the bags under their eyes
Camouflaging the stretch mark on their thighs
And the rest of us stay fixated on our insecurities.

They get paid millions of dollars
To correct their microphoned voices
And be honored for the 'hottest celebrity'
When they are just like the rest of us.
Jess Hays Jul 2016
It's weird not having you here, daddy
I know you would've rather had mom and me along overseas,
But you're going to be busy out there
No time to see the sight-lines or soak in the foreign air.
Just come home soon, daddy.
I don't like it when you're overseas without me.
Jess Hays Jul 2016
Regardless of us having never met,
Would it ignite something inside you
If I said I'd miss you if you died tonight?

Not focusing on the fact that
This has all been said before,
Would it change anything if I told you
That I have been there... and I do get it...
And I don't want you to be alone tonight?

I want to do something,
Spark something inside you that stretches across
The thousands of lakes...
Connecting us...

Will that change anything?
I want to get to know you...
Will you let me get to know you?
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