Jessi Hardison

Don't you realize how you sound? How you look?
Maybe you'd learn something
If you picked up a book.
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You are the sun,
Didn't you know?
You rise in the morning
With a happy face;
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What if I could be one of a kind?
Be my own person, with my own mind?
Take my own chances
Worry about my own romances.
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I tune it out
All of it - every shout
I stare off in the distance
Happy for one instance
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I wish I could help you
Yet there's so much I've to do
How could I of known?
There was someone worse off
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You race ahead;
What's the rush?
There's only so far you can go
Before your tires blow.
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She passes in beauty
She flees in ice
Her insecurity is futile
Feelings kept back in a pile
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Constantly you cover up; hide.
How can you not know I love what's inside?
Right under the surface I see it.
You are who you are, so be it.
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Get it right, won't you?
I've told you a million times right on cue.
Stressing me doesn't reap beneifits, you know.
So, leave me be, just go.
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Tell me
I need to know
You told me you loved me
So, where are you? Where did you go?
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You grace me, and haunt me
I adore your prescence, but you leave me lacking
When I am the same as before
I'm yearning for so much more
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Nerve endings throughout my body going ecstatic
Evil tries to reach me, but it bounces off like elastic
Leaping and bounding with a peaceful tune
I'm hyperactive, as uncontrollable as a monsoon
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Before you I was a dry erase board.
People left their marks on me, but untoward.
After a while you could still see faint lines, though.
Where they had made me smile, or had caused woe.
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Ding, ding, ding!
You're correct; you get that point!
Again. You're always right.
I am ever tired of the sight.
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Open me up like a book
Search deep inside my soul
For something I've never had
You realize this, and have a closer look
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You've torn me apart
Not simply in two
But thousands of peices
To begin again; Restart
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Build me a sky of hues
And place it at my feet
Sing me a song of wonder
And wrap it around me
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Dance, that's all you do.
When I can reach you, you flitter away.
You are evermost graceful
While plotting to get your way.
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You've came this far...
And you're gonna give up?
Who are you to ruin a child's dreams?
They may be long forgotten, but they are not lost.
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Complications
I swore this would never happen
I could never dive in
That plank can be tempting
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