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Can I just rewind time? Go back to when I was nothing more than happy. To when sadness didn't invade the last thoughts I had. How do you achieve that back? Try to make your life better. And all it does is get worse. How do you be happy? How can you live, knowing that you'll never be as happy as you were. You don't. You trudge along life trapped in the motions. Going with the crowd and being a slave to life's formidable ways? Or do you accept society's drugs. Give in to the pills and become one of the hundreds of zombies that no longer have the art in them that they had before. How do you accomplish your goals when your own mind is telling you, you'll fail in everything you do. But what if you stay that way. What if your illness is your strength. Look at history, all of the most famous writers and artist had a mental illness. But I'll never be them because my own thoughts stop me from showing my art pieces, or reading you my poetry that I love to write. How do you manage to go on through life feeling like nothing.
Well that's the thing, you can't. You can't win every race. You can't be the best writer in the world. Or paint a million dollar art piece. Because to do that you have to befriend your own demons. Because to do that you have to give up part of your own mental sanity. And worse you give up that small piece of who you once were. And the one thing no one will ever take from me is my name. So I'll hide behind a new facade and play life's never ending game. Because I won't be one of you. Because I refuse to let my demons win. Because I'll stay one step ahead of my own demons. Because I'll run and never stop running from the things that take away my happiness. Because I want to laugh in the sun, and dance in the rain. I want to live life knowing that I can make it through the day with whatever life throws at me. And I want to know that I won't do it alone. That I'll have the support of people. But that's not the case, it's never that simple. To others I'm perfectly fine, I smile all the time. But that's the thing... you've never seen me smile in pure happiness because it's easier to throw on a smile that's fake. But you thinks it's real cause it's the only thing you ever see. And you'll only ever see that because when I told you I needed help. That I was drowning in a unseen force of darkness. You told me I was just over dramatic. And that hurt. A lot. But that's okay, because you might have gave my demons a new way to torture my mind. But I know that somewhere out in the world. Someone is going through what I'm going through, and they made it through the day, so I can do it too. That I'll be okay, even if my own demons tell me I won't. Because the sun will rise again, and I'll be there to rise with it above the darkness.

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Suicide

Suicide 
A seven letter word
It means die
Everyone has heard at one time 
It ends a life by knife, gun, or rope tied
It’s caused from pain 
Guilt or suffering 
It goes into the brain
And never ends 
You can talk yourself out 
But it doesn’t dismiss 
The thought of your own death 
It’s something no one can resist 
Many die from the hurt 
They end their lives 
Such a complex matter
They cannot end 
They hide 
Unless for a bullet 
A knife put in place 
They get tormented 
Tears hidden by the rain 
People try and try 
To save them again 
But nothing can stop 
The hurt that they feel
Not even for the smallest little pill
The doctors and nurses 
That try and try 
Cannot save them 
For they are no longer alive 
They died years ago 
And lost their souls 
Their path to heaven 
A road they must go alone 
On their way to heaven 
They suddenly learn 
That heaven was around them 
The entire time 
But the devil had their eyes 
Deceived them blindly 
And made then lose view 
Of the loved ones and friends
That they will all lose 
For they weren’t themselves 
They had lost 
Their life to the pain
The hurt and the sorrow 
But they shall not feel 
Pain anymore 
For they have no senses
They are not on earth 
Their bodies below 
And their hearts above 
They belong in the stars 
That’s where they are 
To bless us sweet dreams 
And hide in the clouds 
To watch us from above 
And guide us to 
The right passage ways 
To keep us safe from the devils ways 
They let the thought
Overwhelm their brains
And now they are lost to the sky’s hands 
So when you see rain drops 
Just think they are tears 
Because they can’t help the bullied 
They just end up there 
Their shouts of thunder and lightning flash 
They try to warn them 
Run fast
Think different of suicide 
Think different of pain 
Do us a favor 
Don’t cut your wrist again 
Don’t beat up yourself 
Suicide is the worst you can do
And it’s not the last option 
It’s something you choose

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''You''

You brighten my days
You darken my nights
You create beauty at every sight
You make the waves the roll in
You make the wind blow out
You put me here
You let me go
You up my tears in the sky
You make my frowns into a smiles
You are the creator of the waves
You are the dying light
You are like a candle
Dull but there
You flicker and go out because of thin air
But what you don’t realize
Is that I’ll be right here
While you are the sky
And you’re stuck up there

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Snowflakes

Small, fragile, icy cold
Drifting softly, coming close
Crafted uniquely, just to see 
Nature’s beauty for you and me

Some are big, some are small
Watch them closely, look how they fall
See their figure, see their shape
Don’t touch them though
For they will fade away
Our body heat is much too strong
For these little objects to land on

They lay atop of the ground
Over and over, all around
They grow so magnificently 
To just melt away
A work of are doesn’t fit in place
The beauty fades as the temperatures rise

The snowflakes are gone
Winters goodbyes.

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Her

She looks away
She hides inside
The feelings fade
As her dreams collide
Her smiles gone, her faith is dying
Everything’s went wrong
Is it even worth trying?
She gave it her all
She’ll never fit in 
Cinderella without the ball 
A girl with no friends
No one see’s the pain, a world doesn’t care
It’s just a game 
She’ll take the dare
You don’t see this girl
For she hides in me
A delicate pearl, no one will ever see
Buts it’s okay if she hurts
For you don’t live with the pain
The hardest part, is the worlds to blame
Don’t cry for her
No one ever did before
What’s different now?
You finally noticed her?

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Clouds

White, thin, and light

Are small words to describe

Those magnificent objects

Drifting in the sky

Wild and free

Calm and stormed

Wash down to earth

Only to be reborn.

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Not

When did it change
When did it start
When did my image 
Become more important than my heart

When did it flurry
When did it snow
When did my hair color
Become something to show

When did makeup cover my face
And clothing was needed to feel put in place

When did my image 
Change for another’s thought
When did I become 
Someone I’m not.

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Up To You

Life and death
What to decide 
A heaven and hell
And both hide

Bright and loving
Dark and bold
One is above
One is below

How to decide which
How to chose fate
The fiery pits
Or the pearly gates

Or maybe you're blinded
You just cannot see
That heaven and hell
Are your happiness and misery

Earth is the middle
You make it as you want
Happy and peaceful
Or crazed and confused

It's not up to a fake God
It's all up to you.

Best Poems Written by Brittany Askins

Bliss

'friend'

Who I Once Was

Suicide

''You''

Snowflakes

Her

Clouds

Not

Up To You