Chanel Jackson

Everyday it’s a struggle
with expectations so high.
Yet you still grumble
“That won’t get you by.”
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Images flash in my mind
like pictures on a movie screen
playing over and over again.
Do I say something
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Am I good enough?
It’s a question we all ask.
It echoes persistently in our ears,
As we wonder in fear
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I never met this person
I’ve talked to her
Day and night
Meeting her was different
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It’s so common in our family
But is there a limit to this endless bickering?
Is there such thing as too much?
Before it ends in such dreadful pain?
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Looking in the mirror
And what do I see?
An unhappy, ugly girl
Staring back at me
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It’s sad how things
Especially good things come to an end
But they must
So that we may start a new beginning
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Pen point
To blank paper
making
Curves and lines
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It’s so hard to love you
When you’re so far away
Can’t hold you like I want to
When no longer seen is the sun’s last ray
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Oh what I wouldn’t do
to have you here
Next me
To feel your energy
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Here lies a friendship I struggled to keep alive
It faltered not once, not twice, but many a time.
I failed to distinguish the end of the line
But now seen with a clearer eye
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Sitting here
Staring at a blank screen
The curser furiously blinking at me
Tauntingly saying
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A warm feeling passes over me
As I close my eyes and smile.
The prickly grass tickles my legs
As the wind blows through its mysterious
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They say you have control
You can pick
And you can choose
But there’s always the possibility
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I write what I see
I write what I feel
I write what I know
Nothing more, nothing less
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I thought you were the one for me
Who will be my lover and friend.
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I pretend that I am someone else
I feel young and lost
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Alone,
words resounding,
bouncing against
the cold, hard, eerie walls
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A prisoner in my own home
No freedom
No say
No chance to do it my own way
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Memories of you flash through my mind
with each passing day,
daily reminders of happiness,
during the days we used to play.
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