To Sophia

Location

I know it hurts

But please don't fret

The best of it

Has not come yet

I know the rain feels cold and wet

But don't do something you'll regret

 

If it starts to rain

Let's share my umbrella

I know sadness

Surely

Not as well as you

It won't show on my wrists

Or in the size of my portions

But I swear my brain chem is in contortions

My insides often all in knots

The battle you're fighting is a battle I've fought

Surely

Not as severe

But I perservere

And you will too

I promise--I promise we will both get through

You've got a friend in me

I've got a friend in

There

Somewhere

 

I look at your wrists and I hide my cringes

I'm reminded you're "lost" and "off of your hinges"

Through cutting and bleeding

Through purges and binges

Through gateway drugs and cigarette singes

So go ahead

Tell me all of your triggers

The words that makes you want to pull the trigger

I will censor my mouth from the words that sting

But I'll save the words that I at least figure

Will save you?

Will shake you?

I'm not saying you're broken

But let's cut the bullshit and the words unspoken

You need to be fixed

Need to be awoken

I can't keep playing this game

I have run out of tokens

Of wisdom

To guide you

To help look inside you

To freeze all of these demons that paralyze you

I signed away my heart long ago

When I called you my sister

You were not your own foe

So "Come into my heart and pay no rent"

The price I pay you long ago spent

 

If it starts to rain

Then take my umbrella

I know the rain feels cold and wet

But don't do something you'll regret

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