Chemicals

Suicide

She sat behind the math class window,
The teacher failed to notice the small piece of metal she had in her hands.
That's because he failed to understand, the secret chaos in his class.
And even when the class mates used to yell, she would never tell.
Even when he heard the words coming out of their mouths,
He would let them sit and shout.

He failed to notice the hoodies she wore every day,
Some even smudged with blood and stained
Even the hood over her head went invisible until the next day.
Where she hadn't turned up for school
And her exercise book remained closed.
Her reason for absence, unknown.

She ran home so quick and so sad,
Her parents still working at the cafe,
Running a hot bath, her tears filled half of the tub.
Her underwear she had kept on, for the next time she was seen she'd be gone,

Quietly she sobbed,
Hot lava running down her face
Scorching her cheeks,
In the devils embrace.
All the words that she had been called
"Slut" "whore" "emo" and "fat"
All fell down in her hourglass.
All the rumours that they'd spread,
And the sadness that they fed.
All fell down to the bottom of the water, like ashes in the ashtray.

Shortly after her life slipped away,
Her parents unlocked the door that day
And surrounded her in their warm embrace.
Tears falling from their emotionless face.