I Hope This Makes You Feel Less Alone

By Jordin West

I Hope This Makes You Feel Less Alone is a book of poetry that welcomes you into my personal experiences, my losses and victories, my pains and joys, and many of the things which I’ve learned along the way. It represents the ways in which I’ve been impacted by others and the way in which our stories are woven together beautifully, though we may not notice it in the moment. It is a book about grief and loss yet finding and holding to hope in the midst of it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664119543

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Copyright © 2020 by Jordin West.

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Rev. date: 07/30/2020

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

To You

SORROW AND PAIN

Stuck

Lost

Darkness

Tattoos

Time-Bomb

Hold On To Me

Let Me Be

Hostage

Brain Is Insane

How

IDK

Lack Of Faith

Shipwreck, Part 1 (Inspired By Jonathan Martin)

Doubt

Actress

Can You Love A Mask?

Twenty-One

Shipwreck, Part 2 (Jonathan Martin, Thank You Again)

Another One

Cement

Helpless

So They Say

How?

Hurt

Twenty-Four, Part 1

Hell

Saving

Bandage

Guarded

Escapee

Bear

No Beauty

I Miss You

Numb

When?

Loss

Trauma

Life OR Death (Inspired By C. S. Lewis)

Within

Lost More

Fog

All Too Well (I Love Taylor Swift)

I’m Sorry

Questions

Another Light, Part 1

Another Light, Part 2

HOPE BEYOND WHAT’S SEEN

Clay

Absolute

Lock

Perspectives (Evan, Thank You)

Let It Be

Redeemer

Get Lost

Speak

Destiny

Change

Carries

Savior

Presence

Forgiveness

No More Striving

Twenty-Four, Part 2

Know

Identity

Remember

Feelings Are Not Truth

Shame

There You Are

Change

Captivated

Light (Haitian Proverb)

Tiptoe Not

Hope Whispers

Strength

There’s Good People

Worry

Enemy’s Lies

Who Told You?

Weird

Kindness

Please

Keep Fighting

Love First

Nothing

Today

Found

What I Want

Freedom

Silence

Fire

My Life

Light

Listen

More

Failure

Leave

Healthy

Enter

Interrupt

Waves

Joy

Reach

No Excuse

Hope

Speak

Rejected

Survivor

My Hopes

Loved

No Longer

Without

Wrestled

Special Mentions

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mahi for always believing in me.

Daddio for always investing in me.

Raymond for supporting me.

Cody for joy unlike any other.

Grandma and PePaw for grounding and strengthening me.

Ellie for always encouraging and helping me.

Alyssa for always reminding me.

And to the others who have helped make me who I am.

All who have loved me through it all.

TO YOU

To the mother who lost her child,

To the one struggling with addiction,

To the son who was abandoned,

To the veteran seemingly forgotten,

To the girl that was made an orphan by a car crash,

To the parent that feels like a failure,

To the daughter whose dad is emotionally unavailable,

To the black boy being treated in a disgusting manner,

To the girl who was raped,

To the parent watching their child make choices that break your heart,

To