1: To hear a person's laugh when they're with the person they love.
2: To witness many more mornings when you look out the window and see trees delicately frosted with snow.
3: For the people I inspire without even knowing it.
4: Because my teen librarian told me she wouldn't lose another one.
5: For the sight of freshly turned leaves swept up in a cool, blustery day.
6: For when random people in public smile at you.
7: Because at some point in your life, you have been someone else's reason to smile. Why would you take away the opportunity to make someone else's world light up momentarily?
8: For summer nights rife with crickets and fireflies.
9: For songs that make you feel infinite in the moment.
10: For those special people whom I haven't gotten the chance to meet.
11: For myself, because I have potential and deserve a chance at life, despite the demons that try so hard to drag me down.
12: Because my therapist told me suicide doesn't mean the baton of pain is gone, it just means you pass it on to someone else.
13: Because you have no way of knowing how much emptier the world would be without you. You are not an oracle, so please, don't take the risk.
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Survive: Collected Poems
Poetry~WATTY'S 2019~ ~NOTICE~ AS OF 2/3/19, THIS COLLECTION HAS TOO MANY PARTS! READ VOLUME 2, THRIVE, OUT TODAY! On the pain, love, and passion that makes me human. Potential swearing, mentions of suicide, self harm, depression, rape, etc.
