Your breathing exercises &

Teaching new friends how to run through them

Like old friends once did

Sitting in total silence or nodding your head

In agreement as you listen

I know now exactly how

To rub his back when he wants some comfort,

To hold her hand to help halt self-harm

I have favorite quotes and names and lyrics

Backed up in my brain, ingrained in an invisible locket

Not because I want to but because they may be needed

Tell me all your secrets, no need to bring mine to your grave

Who else determines your level of intelligence,

Your lack of self-confidence

Why do we let society get the best of us

Time and time again

Why do we have to take so many tests

To figure out our self-worth

Why do we need to ask who our friends are

How on earth

Do we manage to let our paranoia ruin us

Let our weakness or our cowardice run us,

Our insecurities, our attention cravings,

The words that one bitch always says get to our heads

He’s a dick he won’t ever value you as a person

So why care so much about his opinion?

Maybe you care too much about that friend

Perhaps you let yourself fall too far for that person that you’re ‘with’

You’ve gotten lost instead of learning to love yourself further;

Learning to like life that much better

Why is it

That their emotions determine your happiness

That their existence somehow affects you in the slightest

Love is not a social construct, nor is it a social contract

It is not sparks when lips collide, nor is it drawing initials inside of hearts

Lately, it seems as if it’s an actual feeling but

Can that be?

My favorite things are the people that I’ve come to know

They’ve shown me that the universe is out of my control,

They’ve taught me to never

Let go of hope

I’ll play this stupid game, for what choice do I have

But know that I will never sell your little lies

And I like to think I’ll always be a good kind of bad