Forgiveness

Flowers keep growing, even when it kills them.

Each of us are breathing our way to the grave with our name carved on top.

Years pass by in seconds near the end but days pass by in minutes.

Time is a funny thing.

How do we know how much is left?

What if she had died that night?

Flowers are beautiful while they bloom receiving smiles and grins.

The last breath is what kills us we think, but what about everyone leading up to that point?

What about all this seconds we wasted?

Holding onto that grudge.

Wanting them to be wrong.

What about those years we we let the problem stand in front of the person?

Because all of us will die.

But flowers get tossed in the trash when the people who loved them can’t forget how they slowly wilted.

We will all sit under a grave.

So don’t kill yourself today.

Don’t let that problem sit in front of you

One more second

One more year

One more lifetime.

Because when we lie down for the last time,

We will wish that we had shoved those problems aside and wrapped those we loved in a hug.

Stopping time.

LIVING WHILE WE HAVE THE CHANCE.

by cosette.jacobson

w R i T i N g

Sometimes words fly

By brain vomits on the page and when I go back to read it, everything falls into place.

My swirling brain forms thoughts in mice neat lines and words flow

But other times

Words stick like ice on my windshield when I’m late to school

Brushing the ice off takes my time

Then I’m even more late

I feel like I’m late more than I’m on time

And 15 minutes late has become on time for me

But the words they stick for longer than even that

Blank screen

Blank screen

Blank screen

One letter

Hit by my elbow as I fall sleep on the keyboard

But that letter is hit thousands of times

And I wake up with a whole novel of q’s

But I still turn that in

And still get in trouble with myself when I fail.

But my teachers said to write creatively.

I guess q is the most boring letter

Maybe my teacher got stuck on the q on the a b c gane

And can’t let it go

But maybe I got stuck on the q too, but I liked it. Watching the letter stand with all the other ones the same

Was even more beautiful than the story my brain couldn’t print on my the page.

by cosette.jacobson

L 💛 V E

You make me feel like a harmony.

Beautiful.

Complex.

Like every note — even the wrong ones — make me what you listen to every night.

These things are how you make me feel.

You make me feel like a dream.

Like I’m too good to be true.

Like I don’t have any limits

No gravity.

Only you and me.

These things are what you make me feel

You make me feel like a diamond.

Like all those things that broke me down make me beautiful in you’re eyes.

These things are what you make me feel.

by cosette.jacobson

Scary

how to not get scared?

Thunder crashes

Cars crash

But it’s not that big of a deal. This is all in my head

I can feel the electricity coursing through my veins and burning me alive

but it’s not real

Spiders

Those are real

But it’s just air currents brushing your skin not spider feet

legs getting crushed while the sound of metal scraping and bending breaks your ears in half.

I can feel the blood running down my face and can smell the smoke

But I’m just making it up

Who can say what’s real

And what seems so real that you can smell it, taste it, we even cry about it but when we wake up all we see is the dark ceiling of our room where it’s always been

Wind

Spider webs brushing on your face

I tried to tell myself it was real, he loved me u til I found out he never did

He never thought about me outside of being forced to be around me

But things in your head are real

They are real for you

I know you want to hear how to face these fears

How to shut the voice in your head up

How to wake up from that dream

But the truth is

Fear is real

But realizing what you’re afraid of might not be real is the key to making something out of it

by cosette.jacobson

S T A R S

There’s a star

We could catch it

But it’s so high

What if climb a tree then we could catch all the stars

My little nephew sees the world

He hasn’t been crushed by the fist of reality

His dreams are bigger than a 4.0 or getting that boy to look at you

He wants to catch the stars

by cosette.jacobson

Break

Be strong

You can do hard things

You can be whoever you want

But what about when things get hard

Why are we so afraid to

B R E A K?

It’s ok not to be perfect and if you hold yourself to being perfect, the only thing your going to get is disappointment.

Be you

All of you… even the broken parts

by cosette.jacobson

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Blood keeps us alive. It pumps through our veins providing nutrients to every part of our body.

It heals broken down muscles and makes scabs when you fall and scrape your knee.

The constant beating of our hearts tells us we are alive and comforts our fears of fainting when we see that cute boy walking down the hallway.

But have you ever thought that with every beat of your heart, you are getting closer to death?

Pump

Pump

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by cosette.jacobson

NEATURE

nature is calm. Time is endless and to do lists are things of fiction. We as humans are too caught up in moving.

We’re always rushing to the next thing.

The next appointment, the next event, or even the next moment like this one doesn’t matter.

The human race is always in a race; minds switched off to everything around them. We run around with mirrors surrounding us, only caring about the three feet closest to us. Why do we care about what others think when all they see is themselves reflected back at them. Everyone is so focused on what others think about them, they don’t even have time to judge the people whose opinions matter so much.

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Think about how much we miss.

– rainbows

– sunrises

– talking to that old lady that lives across the street and has more stories than Netflix.

– your little brothers dance moves

I don’t know the perfect solution. Getting rid of to do lists is impractical and time won’t freeze for us to enjoy these magical moments.

But every once in a while, we could

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Watch the beauty around us, smile at that person walking by we don’t know, or jump on the tramp- just to be reminded that the force of gravity hasn’t disappeared just because we became an adult.

Put the phones down, tear up the to do list, and pay attention to those moments that will sneak by if you don’t.

SEE THE WORLD.

by cosette.jacobson

falling hats

hats cover who we are

or the part of us we want to hide from everyone else

the weird habits

the things we aren’t proud of

why do you think we try SO hard to impress people we are probably never going to see again

why do we do that?

why don’t we just be ourselves?

because we know that everyone would know that we aren’t perfect

BUT NO ONE IS

so dance in your pajamas

brag about your good test score

say that joke you held in

wear that hat

even if people laugh because their laughs are only the cries of jealousy.

— couchjaxx

by cosette.jacobson