I can still taste your lips on my lips.
I can still feel your hands on my hips.
I can still remember how you sighed my name when we kissed.

*-c.a.

Summer is my favorite season ever
Staying outside under the starry night sky
Swimming and hoping the day never ends
Laying in our swimsuits waiting to dry
I really want summer to be here now.

I would stay up and do crazy things because I'm a teen
Listening to music and letting days pass by
Wearing short shorts and smelling like chlorine
Natural hair with no makeup on
Waking up to the earthy smell of freshly cut grass
Watching the clouds float by with not a care
In the car with the sound up and bass loud
Wearing glasses to protect me from the glare
Even though it's usually way to hot for me
Sometimes that's what you need to feel free

*-c.a.

I know I'm not anything special. I know that when I walk past guys, I don't turn heads like some girls do and guys don't come up to me and ask for my number. And I'm okay with that. But for once I want someone to choose me first. I'm so ******* tired of being someone's second choice or getting left behind for someone better. I guess what I really want is someone to like me for me and then end up liking the whole me, if that makes any sense.

*-c.a.

Slowly recovering
Slowly gaining back,
everything that I had lost to this disease.
Happiness,
Friends,
Laughter,
Me.

I may not be at my thinnest
or my craziest
but now I'm at my best.
I want to recover.
I want to rest.

I'm tired of counting
and constantly watching.
I want to be free,
I want to be me

...whoever that may be...

*-c.a.