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Being vulnerable is one of the scariest things any human being can do; to unfasten the armor reinforced by a... More

To Love a Wanderer
That Forever Kind of Love
Home
poetry doesn't have to rhyme
The Ones You Sent For Me (Part 1)
Limits of Heaven
The One You Sent For Me (Part 2)
Night Light
Unrehearsed
Yesterday & Tomorrow's Regrets
It's O.K. to Bleed, I Have a Towel
Permission to be Great: Denied
Modern Magic
Who Else Knows?
Warnings to Him
Presentation
On the Count of Three
They Might
Capture & Release
I Feel Different Now
Courtyard of Memories
You are strength.
Call Out for Me: See Who Comes
Liar
Escape
Hopes: Unchained
Glory
Bright Future
2020
Meditate
Means
Comfortable
Good Intentions
in my head
Right People
Double Negative
Haunted Holes
Sin
Broken Goodbye
Confused
Them too
Queen to Queen
Escape
Psychic for the Broken
Rose Colored Lenses
To Walk a Rose
An Empire Built on Quicksand
Eyes Closed
Getting Over You
Barrettes and Knocker Blocks
Redirection (Part 1)
Don't Settle
Crown
Progress
Jasmine La'Shay Hill
Princess
She's an Empath.
Change
My Sister Says I Look Best When I am Sick
I'm Still Bleeding
Lost
You are my humanity.
First they Mock, then they Mimic.
Rules of the Game
To Deny your Greatness is to Deny the Living Word.
One Foot in Front of the Other
When I Grow Up
The Kindness Equation
Gears on the Otherside
The Gift of Space
Love Watermark
I Chose Silence
Be O.K., O.K.?
Write.Write.Write.
I Am Who I Say I Am
Resentment
[Insert Scream Here]
I Hate You.
Shit World
Snakes in the Church
Fucks on Credit
What am I Allowed to be?
Bound to Misery
Action vs. Actor
When I See You
Fill Me Up
The Girl Ablaze in Front of You.
[Insert Scream Here}
Honestly?
I'm Not O.K.
My First Love: The Written Word
Oh, The Burden of Freedom!
Empty Faucets
Emotionally Independent?
Rules of the Game (Clean Version)
hymn for the hopeless

June 9th

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By WriterJasmineHill

Today is June 9th.
Tomorrow, I will be 23.
What does that mean?
That means today is the last day I'll be writing from the perspective of a 22 year old, and tomorrow will mark the ending of 22 and Learning: Curiously Beautiful.

I don't put much hope into birthdays because I've learned that to have high hopes on birthdays is to hurt my family's feelings.

And I still don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

But I do keep high hopes for myself.

And even though it saddens me to close this book, it is my hope that I can use this last day to empty my emotions and thoughts on these remaining pages til I can say with absolute certainty that I'm at peace with concluding this chapter of my life.

So let the pouring begin.

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