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Best Poems Written by Jai Payton

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Why

You have the freedom of religion, one of the most popular rights in America. 
So why from a young age has the lord and savior Jesus Christ been shoved down my throat. Why is it that as an American im not able to decide who I want to believe in until in 18 and even then its frowned upon to be anything but the norm. But how do you expect me to believe in a god that has allowed so much pain and  in the world? Well, you see how God doesn't make mistakes. Then how the hell do you explain what I am? I wasn't planned and most of the time nobody seems to want me around to explain that to me. Explain to me how a god who is all good and pure and can see everything would allow my father the ability to bear children knowing he would only be a father to one of his children. Explain to me how a god so great would allow that man to put his hands on me in a way no man should explain to me why he would allow the thoughts inside my head to exist, explain why he would allow me to look into a mirror and hate what I see to hear all the problems my father said was my fault and to feel the mans hands on my body .  I  Am living in a world where everyone wants me to believe that there is a god and that he is all good and all mighty but in all reality, there are just scared to not understand why there are the way they are.

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Coffee Shop

I met you in that coffee house in a  Monday afternoon it was different that day the air was warm and it was quite you were there only one there you looked so calm  and peaceful I kept going every monday and like clockwork you were always there I couldn't tell if you kept coming for the coffee or just to see me after a couple weeks I built up the courage to talk to you I felt this connection and I think  you did too because that  night you had asked me to dinner when u walked me too my door you kissed me goodnight and it felt like fourth of July  as the dates multiplied and our time grew I feel in love with you a feeling I have never felt before when u go sticks I  nurtured you back to health one morning I woke up and you were gone  and your phone turned off and every monday I went to the coffee house hoping you would be there but after months I knew that you wouldn't that you were long gone and that I needed to move on and I never saw you again

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Hurricanes

As their fingers interlock 
Her hands are shaking faster than a 
A house during a 5 magnitude earthquake
As their lips move in close 
Her heart is beating was beating so loud it sounded like a 
Drumset was living in her chest
When their lips finally touch 
The hurricane of thought in her head subside
The never ending fear of things going wrong 
The thought that this isn’t right 
The knowing that will never go anywhere 
Went away 
For those three seconds
There was blissful silence
But as they pulled away 
As the fireworks and the silence stopped 
The hurricane came back and came back stronger

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You Are Not Love

I have always had to ask what being in love feels like 
 it is usually described by the way the other gets a sparkle in their eye 
 or the dances in the living room.
 I have never had this type of love 
 my love was always toxic 
 like swimming with rocks in your pocket . 
 I have never known true love  
 my idea of love was toleration the bad moods
 unanswered prayers for a good one. 
what we had was not love it was a war
 and the bedroom was a battlefield 
 where all our wars took place ,
 where we tried to hide the pain but it was stained in the walls , 
 the yells echoed and the tears left water marks on the celling 
 we did not have love
 we had the fear of being alone

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I Am Beautiful

My stomach is not flat 
And my jeans only do so well covering my stretchmarks 
But that does not make me less beautiful 
It does not make me any different than the girls in the movies
We are the same people 
Making the same mistakes 
Living the same lives
So does the size of my waist matter 
I am not beautiful because of my bra size 
I am beautiful because of my smile 
I am beautiful because of who I am 
Not who I  look like

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Beautiful Writing

You asked me where I learned to write so beautifully. 
This question puzzled me because nothing of mine has ever been described with the word beauty but instead of a useless waste of time or just plain wrong. You see I do not write to please people I do not write to get my sad sob story out there and to receive the many oh are you okay I do not write because i think that is the only reason that someone will listen to me. I write because i am drowning in the sea of my thoughts and writing provides a breath of fresh air. So when I write I am writing not to fulfill your boredom but instead to have some relief.