When Falling

I knew that bad things happened, but not to me. How could the word hopeless sound so familiar, but have no feeling? Do people even scream; when they're falling?

Hope was an ordinary girl, with ordinary teenage hormones, and ordinary parents, but did not feel ordinary. She lived quite the mediocre life; played basketball with her friends on weekends, wrote poetry and songs, and just about any art you could think of. But there was something inside her, begging to get out; talent. The first time she went to a slam poetry night she was amazed at the complements she received. So much support, and yet, she couldn't get over the word hopeless.