Jessi Hardison Poems

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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