Okay, so I made this poem about two years ago and I just found it again. Hope you enjoy.


You seemed so happy
Never really sad
But I wonder
To this day
Was it all just an act?

You were always smiling
Saying its ok
When somehow
I could see
You weren’t really ok

I always asked you what’s wrong
And you always said nothing
But sometimes
I swear you say
Everything

I badger you and badger you
Till you gave up
I noticed the tears in your eyes
The quiver of your lip
The pain in your voice

What’s wrong I ask
Knowing you’ll give in
Though not knowing
The tale
The story you hide within

“I’m hated
I’m alone
Isn’t that enough
I’ve been beaten and tortured
When I thought it would stop

My life is hell,
Compared to them
I’m nothing
I’m trash
I’d rather be dead

So why do you ask
Why do you care?
Why don’t you scream?
Why don’t you hide?
And why don’t run”

I won’t hide
I won’t scream
And I most certainly won’t run
But most importantly
I don’t care what they say

You may look scary
You may look like trash
You may look messy
You may look dirty
That is their words

But none of that matters
Who cares what they say
Who cares what they think
Who cares that they really
Think they are all that

Not me
Not ever
Not you
Hopefully never in your life
Ever again

You aren’t alone
You aren’t hated
And you aren’t that stupid kid either
That is what I say
I don’t care about them

As soon as I said that
I knew something happened
He was staring at me
So intensely
With eyes so questioning

I know he was thinking
‘How could she think this?
And not like everyone else
Why is she so kind?
And happy for that matter’

I’m kind because I look with my heart
Not with my eyes
I try to understand
Instead of staying away
I don’t go with what everyone says

He just looks at me
Like he’s seeing something
And completely understanding it
For the first time
And I just smile

I smile and tell him
You are innocent
I don’t know why they do those things
But I do know
We are friends now

And he just grinned
From ear to ear
He looked at me
And asked really?
Yes, yes we are