Jessi Hardison

You race ahead;
What's the rush?
There's only so far you can go
Before your tires blow.
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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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Lavender to scarlet
Leads sapphire to onyx
Brilliant noon to magnificent midnight
Time is carried on the wings of the phoenix
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Tick tock, tick tock.
Does it ever stop?
Nope, never, sorry.
But, really, that shouldn't be a shock.
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Inspiration. It comes at odd times, doesn't it?
I just can't quite understand it.
But when it's there, be sure to grasp it.
Don't let it slip away.
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You give it out for free,
Respect.
You want it back, but you don't
Expect.
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I catch that quick glimpse again.
That heartbreaking glance.
We're not perfect, not even close.
Yet still we dance this dance.
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It's a tricky thing, this life.
Am I to be indolent, or gain success through strife?
Be elated then desperate, or pick up that knife?
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You talk me down,
Anything to catch a frown,
Know you got to me,
Add more turmoil to my sea.
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I am new,
reborn, unscathed
Neverless damaged all the same
I was a kindred spirit
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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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