You don’t hate me at all, do you? If you did, would you watch us lau… After what had happened to us? Would you thumb through every poem… To find those about you,

I am confused most of the time I don’t understand the big world a… I try to. I am a little girl with an enormou… I trust easy, I forgive even easi…

I sit alone Outside the band room Books scattered about Milkweed. Paper Towns.

I am young. They tell me I can’t know the tru… They say that I need to run from… I am naive. I argue until my ears go numb

You can’t keep crying all of the t… Then change what is making you cry… You can’t keep not eating? Eat. You need the nutrition. You can’t keep pushing people away…

In a place of in-genuine interacti… Where I’m expected to smile and s… You don’t ask me how I am, You ask for gratification: To feel like a better person

I loved, I broke, I loved, I got… And I thought there had to be som… I thought I wouldn’t trust, would… I learned that it takes the right… With a patient care and a kind hea…

I was fine for a bit On the verge of apologizing And I did. I apologized to you. Yet it wasn’t good enough.

I could never tell you I regret y… Or that I wish we’d never met. You’ll never hear those words from… Because once upon a time You were exactly what I needed.

I went to the woods to reflect on life—to reflect on who I am. Most people would come back from the woods having learned the things that life had to teach. For me, it wasn't that simple...