To not feel alone and misunderstood,
To not feel like a piece of s*** stain
On the world…
To go through life without a struggle,
To not endure pain
To not experience sadness and regret…
Is to not have gone through the most character defining
Emotionally shaping times…

Feeling alone, feeling confused
Feeling used and empty
Feeling that your heart and soul will never be set free

These are the things that make you.. You.

Without teenage heart-break
Without crying for your own sake
Without screaming at the top of your lungs just for F***ING right to do so..

Without these things that seem so
Tragic and painful to you then
Is to be without the experience
that turns boys into men
princesses into queens
and shows you what emotion really means
To feel betrayed, to feel angry and to feel hurt
is TO FEEL ALIVE
If you have lived your life without regret
Then a congratulations is due,
For I feel both jealousy and pity for you.

Dive deep into your desires
Lose yourself in the pool of lust
Be human and forget to be tied down by all the things that you
‘must’ do because let me tell you
It is the things in life we don’t follow through
And see to the end and finish
That we repeat over in and over in our
Unforgiving minds


Without the uncertainty of rejection
Without that nervous tingling sensation of leaving fate to chance
Without that fear of the unknown,
To be unsure of what will come
Without that little voice saying no in your head
Will only let the other voice,
The voice of love
The voice of dreams and wild things
The voice of recklessness and rebellion
Of opposition about which your childhood sings
Speak all the louder and more powerful
For when staring in the face of danger and uncertainty
Do we truly become what we want to be




So live your life with days
Filled with laughter and affection
And look forward to the days
Spent in a lazy summer haze
But when reflecting back, be thankful of those times
When your emotions were a maze that even you couldn’t figure out
And you felt unable to convey any shred of feeling
Or put any words together with a sense of meaning


Remember that the light at the end
Is all the brighter now you HAVE pulled yourself
Through the dark
Through the pain and fear and feeling of insignificance
That kept you dreaming of ways to disappear
Into the black of night
Away from sight, Away from people and others
But here you are

Here YOU are

Still there, by no chance or luck
You’re strong. Maintain it and keep up


Once we embrace our fear
And mold ourselves to overcome

Whatever may lie in our way
Then we can truly say

I am proud of how I got here


You. Are. You.