Eight o'clock
School starts
Coraline is in a hospital for attempted suicide
Mary is crying again
Anne is laughing and joking
Tom is bullying anyone and everyone
Charlie silently smiles
All of them are depressed
All of them have their struggles
Coraline should be too young for drugs
Mary has anger issues
Anne is scared to eat
Tom is suffering from abuse
Charlie, well, Charlie could be me
Time passes by
Coraline used to self-harm. She has now stopped
Mary used to cry. She can now laugh
Anne used to wear a happy mask. She can now be honest
Tom used to cope with hate. He can now love
Charlie used to be silent. They can now speak up
Today
I don't know what they do nowadays
I don't know what I do nowadays
But I know that we have a chance to
Another chance to
Because
They got better
I got better
We got better
We survived
And I hope you do, too
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Not the poem I thought I'd post next, but I guess you could say it just "came to me".
The names are fictional, but it's about former classmates and me. Everything else has been said in the poem itself.
YOU ARE READING
It does get better.
PoetryPeople say it will get better. But to be fair, most of them never were in your place. They say you will get happy again, but how can they know? I've struggled with trauma, mental illnesses, and self harm for many years. These are (mostly) poems - ab...
