poetry

Have You Or Did You?

This is my way of telling people not to judge anyone. You never know what a person has gone through or is going through. These are things that I've been through. Some I have dealt with and overcame and some I'm still dealing with.

Have you ever truly been by yourself, all alone?
Have you ever been left 3 months by yourself in a home?
Have you ever have to fend for yourself as a kid?
Have you ever had a parent leave their child like mine did?
Have you ever had someone close die in the past year?
Have you ever had it happen so often that you ran out of tears?
Have you ever hated God for turning his back on you?
Have you ever cried till your eyes were red and sore too?

Did you ever have to walk two miles during a snow storm?
Having to do it while wearing nothing to keep you warm?
Did you ever lived in a home without hot water or power?
You ever washed yourself in the winter, body's going numb in the shower?
Did you ever try to commit suicide but then decided not to do it?
Knowing it would kill your siblings and you couldn't put them through it.

Then don't ever judge me and think that this is all for show,
Because you don't know half the things that you think you know.
Thinking that I was beat as a child was all an act,
The proof of abuse are written in the scars on my back.
I've told you everything, but you still think I'm lying.
I only smile at school to hide the fact that I'm crying.