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sure, it is a superpower
to care so deeply about others' happiness, health, energy, wealth
but it is also my deepest flaw
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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that's the thing about me and promises
you can't keep one without the other.
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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jumbled.
that's how i feel.
confused
messy
unhinged
nothing makes sense.
is it supposed to?
or is the whole point of life
to close your eyes
and feel your way through?
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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if you've made it this far
and turn back around
you're leaving with my heart
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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she's taking photos of the good time
she's not present enough to have
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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because a win for someone else makes the bigger journey greater
and another's great success is not, in turn, my failure.
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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realizing that maybe the
only thing holding me back
from who i want to be
is me.
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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but i'm too scared
to speak up
to get it wrong
to piss you off
to be too strong
to be disliked by anyone
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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and if you think it's wrong
to walk tall in my shoes
and won't sing along
to those parts of me too
then maybe i'm not
the role model for you
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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all growing older and brushing less shoulders
with what-ifs of chances untook
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)
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you often feel far away, out of touch
like you can never quite
get close enough
to the people that you love
but you think that while touching thousands.
without you, the world would be dark
you'd be missed.
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Kelsea Ballerini (Feel Your Way Through: A Book of Poetry)