Falling Leaves

a poetry collection

Jana B.

• Verlag: Books on Demand
• Jahr: 2020
• ISBN drucken: 9783752671834
• eBook-ISBN: 9783752600742
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Literatur
• Thema: Poesie

"Falling Leaves" is a collection of poetry, which deals with all kinds of mental health issues (depression, eating disorders,...) and also includes a lot of social criticism. It's not supposed to be a guide on how to heal and recover, but it represents my own process of healing and maybe you can take something out of it.

recovering

(poems)

I’m done fighting myself,

done thinking I'm less

than anyone else.

Stand up 'n rise

'stead of believing all those lies,

that I told myself long enough,

done thinking I’m not good enough.

It’s all gonna be alright,

as soon as I’m changing the sides,

from slow suicides

'n self-destructive homicides

to some self-love and a

confident kind of mind.

I convinced myself to feel it.

insecure 'bout being me

standin’ up for what I wanna reach

'bout things I do

sadly it’s true

I'd love to show some confidence

which

society turned into arrogance

being judged for reaching my happy end

is what’s holding back

right in this moment

take care your issues won’t become your identity.

“i'm fine“ I said a million times

with million of some other lies.

don’t wanna talk

don’t wanna cry

but still don’t even wanna try.

it's a deadly game

in which we go insane.

let’s start right now,

'cause we all know

we won’t get better

unless we try.

all the time I was trying to be anyone but myself.

but why?

we live in a world

that is out to break us

any way it can.

but we can learn

how to handle things

differently.

today’s gonna be the first day

of the rest of my life.

Feeling small,

nearly insignificant,

compared to the weight of the world.

Watch the time ticking,

passing by.

But you gotta try letting go,

those feelings and thoughts,

which let you pass the time,

without living.

Let them go,

be yourself

feel alive,

don't hold yourself down,

down deep in a hole,

feel the air,

the fresh breeze,

take a deep breath.

Be unstoppable.

just because you’re hurting

doesn’t mean I’m not.

We're all looking for someone to save us

&

we all have the urge to save the world.

But it's okay if we start by saving only one person

&

it's okay,

if this one person is

yourself.

It's not selfish.

It's necessary.

Necessary to be happy,

to feel fulfilled

&

loved.

Because

I truly believe

that you can't love someone else,

if you don't love

-at least accept-

yourself

first.

gaining back my faith and trust.

It's kinda funny,

how natural behaviors

turn into such a big deal.

Normal things turn into bad habits

&

you just can't tell how this really happened.

Just tryin' to figure out

a way to escape your own mind.

Running from the demons.

Trying so hard.

To get free.

To get happy.

To finally live again.

just because you’re broken

doesn’t mean you have to stay broken.

and when you feel like things get way to heavy

you gotta surround yourself with people

who bring out the best in you

who manage to distract you

who change your destructive thoughts

into more positive ones

and who can take away

parts of your anxiety.

your serious, but honestly so pointless

anxiety.

and eventually

you slowly learn

t...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• About the author
• Table of Contents
• Anticipation
• Trigger Warning
• Falling
• Allowing
• Recovering
• Growing
• "Falling Leaves” - intention
• German Bonus Poems
• Copyright