Jason Terrell Poems

There was a kid who'd run home. Not because he was hungry. But because he was full of fear inside his aching heart hoping his sister had survived to see another day. One time she was about to hang herself from the ceiling of her room, and he barely caught her. He'd wake up in cold sweats and go to her room to make sure she was fine so HE could feel better. He held on helplessly hoping heaven would send an angel down to earth because his feet couldn't run without her.
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I used to know a girl named Cassidy. There are two things you should know about her;
1) that I never spoke to her. Despite her many desperate attempts to push her way into people's lives she was constantly shut out.
2) she died in a car crash in second grade
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I’m not a great man or a good guy
I’m just a kid.
A kid.
A kid who has been thrown out into the tides of the world, wandering from high to low not knowing which direction to go or if I can even escape the pull.
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