Spring Poetry Contest

If These Walls Could Talk (@ready2gohome)

"Yeah, Everything's been fine lately"

Things are not fine; they haven't been for a while.

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"The bullying stopped a while ago. I don't even think about it anymore."

It hasn't stopped. It has gotten worse. Now she doesn't like herself. She blames the mirror for the way she sees herself. She won't tell her friends this. She doesn't trust them or maybe it's, because she doesn't have any anymore.

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"No she's my real mom; it's just that she was upset that day she's usually not like that."

Her mom called her a bitch and punched her the other day. She is like that everyday. The kids at her school are not her only bullies.

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"School is okay; I can't wait for summer break though."

She wouldn't know how school has been. She hasn't been there in almost 3 weeks. She just lays there in bed; like the aftermath of a natural disaster.

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"I don't wanna take choir again next year; I don't even like singing anymore."

She loves singing, but she feels she doesn't deserve to enjoy it. She is ruining her own life.

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"Life is short; I'm just trying to enjoy it to the fullest."

She wants to die. Her and her friend send each other suicide memes. They both laugh; neither of them are joking.

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"Dad, aren't you glad none of us has psychology issues? None of us need therapy."

She wants to go to therapy. Her family can't afford it. It would break her father's heart. She cannot stop worrying. She is losing at a game called life. Thing's aren't getting better. She's not getting better.

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