A family member, a friend, a cousin

Alone, desperate, looking for a place to lay her head

A job, a home, a bed

KASEY

A lie, a betrayal, a death

The kind of death that creeps into your veins and lives there

Blue lips, still body, and for once a silent mind

Smiles lost, tears flowing, hearts shattering

Screams into the night shakeing the very core of the earth,

A loneliness

I have been broken

and though that week you begged me not to go, I still left.

Reassuring with a smile that I would be back, but not knowing that that would be the last time I ever saw you...

ALIVE...

A phone call...

I knew that you were gone and all of the breath left my body as if you had taken my soul with you

Dread and tears, soon replaced with anger as I tried to curl your hair just the way you loved it

My knees clanking like glass shattering as they hit the ground at the sight of you

and though I will always regret leaving you, it was you that left me

Your drug of choice destroying my will to live as you pushed it into your body

RELIEF

You just wanted to be numb and now I know that need

That need of quenching your thirst as if you'd been walking for hours on the broken pieces of your life

The sharp edges of judgment cutting your toes as you forced your way through

"I JUST WANT TO BE BETTER"

A new home, a new state, new faces

Once again, I know that need

Alone, desperate, looking for a place to my lay head

A job, a home, a bed

JOHNNA

Slowly picking out the pieces embedded in my heels

Not good enough

Keep pushing

Not good enough

Keep pushing

Not good enough 

Keep pushing

STOP

A school, a campus, a college

A picture on the wall that looks just like her

A graduate

A reason to go on

A reason to inspire

A reason to get better

Sunlight, an alarm clock

Time to wake up...