Family

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Sitting in a corner

Head in the books

Never lower than the best

Always wanted

Tons of homework

None hers

Good grades

You have

Pushed

Pulled

Yanked

Tormented

Always

You joke

She cuts

Attempted five

Never passed

Tried and tried

Never bled

Enough

Always to tall

No more shorts

No more short sleeves

Everything long

Scars everywhere

Home is no better

Safe

What a joke

Even her parents tried

You call it a game

She calls it life

Funny to you

Hell to her

Goes to school

Needing love

Never getting it

Finally

Gym

Loud crash

Run to main gym

Jumped

Second level bleachers

Anger, then happiness

Note on back pack

Your name

Plastered on

This is because

YOU AND DAD

Never realized

She was

The sister

Mom always

talked about

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