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Jessica Feb 2022
I am most alive on a warm summer night at dusk
Walking through a field of tall grass
With a warm gentle breeze blowing
Stars just starting to fill the sky
The sound of the frogs and crickets in the air
No one know I’m there
Jessica Feb 2021
Trusting makes you vulnerable
Makes you open

What do you do when you are the one saying no.

You, the you who was happy before it all.
Who spent years building the walls around your heart and mind.
The you who suffered through the pain and psychological warfare of relationships riddled with abuse, neglect and exploitation.

The smarter , more weathered you.

Misery loves company they say, and you are your own best.

The internal struggle to open up, but why? Why wouldn’t you listen to yourself, to your instinct? If you had in the first place would you even be here.

You’ve learned to be more convincing more urgent and intended on quelling those urges to cut a hole in the walls.
You finds reasons and ways to remind you yourself.

You gives you a taste of what it felt like before. Before the safety of this place, alone.
You makes it hurt like it did before
You did it

Who do you trust now, you?
How do you ever trust again, especially when it your own mind hindering you, you find deceit in every single little thing no matter how small it may seem the next day. Your mind can let you trust, but how is that different. That is painful, the anxiety, the questioning yourself. You are the one hurting yourself now, what’s the worst that could happen.
Jessica Jan 2021
Now Unwanted
Then  Unable
Me not able
Then Afraid

How can I escape
How can I escape
Who can help me

Your hands on my body
Your hand holding me down

I can not escape
I am unable

Afraid
Ashamed
Assaulted

My life will never be the same
Assault sexualassault recovery survivor
Jessica Jan 2021
Behavior is a Response
Your Actions receives a Reaction
Attention to You
You learn how to get what you want
You learn
You repeat

The things you want command your behavior
Your Actions
Your Mind

What do you want?
Love, Attention, Fear, Distain or Admiration

Do you wish for family?
Do you desire Success or Fame?
Do you want people to feel afraid?  
Worship, Submission, Control.

Who are you
What do you want
What will your behavior be

Can you control yourself
Jessica Jan 2021
The vibration of the bus and the sun shining on my arm felt good
I couldn’t help but feel a dislike for myself despite it.  
As I looked out the ***** bus window I saw  the Sun kissed water and the deep green trees so far away.
It was beautiful
in this moment untouched.
I wanted to feel it.

Brought back by the ripples trailing a speedboat.
The water cut with the deep blades of human interference.
The ripples spreading magnificently
one after one after one
unwavering
Its shine distracting from the impact on the deep calm waters.

I felt the pain of the water.
I felt the dislike of myself for the impact I have.
I felt guilty for wanting to touch the untouched.
Who am I to touch?

Everyone needs their piece.
The piers, the boats, the yards, the perfectly developed plots in which to raise their families and plant their non-native gardens.

Violently pull their roots , so we can plant ours.

Unwilling to change ourselves
to see ourselves
to reflect on our touch
On our impact

The giving tree can only give so much, and it will never be enough.

I wrote this on my iPhone
drinking out of a plastic bottle
riding on a bus.
Named after the engraving on the bridge I was crossing when I looked out the window.
Jessica Jan 2021
The leaves are falling
I am falling down
Cold air rolls in, my heart is blue
Because of you

Season change in life the same

I used to be happy
Hopeful
Then humiliated

The sun is shining
Yet the cold air is suffocating me
My heart is cold
My happy is gone

My season has changed
Because of you.

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