Thick Skin

You bring light to where the darkness lives It’s trying on a heart to feel helpless Your lips speak the words that I love to hear Entire sentences in kisses, you keep me here Holding your body close to me, just to feed off of your heart beat To bring me to life when I most desperately need Someone to save me from this pain in my chest Your hands collide with my skin and you put me to rest Your touch puts me at ease Playing me like piano keys And the only audible sound is the space between you and me Beating hearts, little sighs, the way I can hardly breathe When your lips are pressed onto mine Looking at you as our fingers intertwine Want to spend forever just like this With nothing to worry about except our next kiss

The days I don’t joke about it are the worst ones People want answers from me, want reasons As to why I have so much love for everyone around me But the love I need for myself is something I can’t see My mirror doesn’t reflect it What everyone else seems to see so I deflect it Compliments, and I embrace my insecurities Transform them into laughter, my own beautiful monstrosities I can put a smile on your face; I’ll always make you feel better It doesn’t matter how I feel, cause I can change the weather For you, I can turn rain into the sun And even if it’s not for me, I made a difference for someone I wake up knowing what I’ve done and know that I can change The world for someone else who may be suffering the same All they needed was someone who cared enough to make their day And who am I to think that what I need is more important than them anyway? If I spend all night awake Because of the pain that I sometimes cannot shake I h...

There are too many tears and too little cheek Your words and your hurt are making me weak And you said your love was endless You said that it would last But the person I was before Is staying in the past And this is who I am, and I’m still your daughter This is me, I’m not changing for anybody You’re my family; you’re my father How can you tell me you don’t love me Anymore This is the life I have to live It’s not something that I chose Because why would you choose to give Yourself a harder life than those Who can love who they want with no consequences There’s nothing enlightened about this There’s nothing better about this But this is who I am, and I’m still your daughter This is me, I’m not changing for anybody You’re my family; you’re my father How can you tell me you don’t love me Anymore Because of who I have to be Because of who I love There are far worse things for me To have become So I’m asking...