A Chores Of Voices

As a student sits in the back,

Others stand back and watch.

Oh, this kid is lonely

Oh, this kid is depressed.

No, maybe this kid has been bullied,

Hurt in so many ways only God knows how.

Maybe that kid is plotting against every kid who had plotted against her.

As this girl cries in the bathroom

Others stand by

And just listen,

Not even knowing

The pain and the depth within each droplet.

No one gets it,

People who are stuck up,

Who are too into themselves,

Put down others who are different.

They shoot them with their words

Cut them with their eyes

And Kill them with their comments

Everything they say stings like a branding iron which leaves a permanent mark

Breaking the victim's confidence down to nothingness.

Not knowing

Or even being intentional

To make them go home and cry nightly

Making them want to die

Making them no longer who they are,

But now they want to be someone else.

But what about the bully, themselves

They never get looked at

Not until one of their victims do something that doesn't reflect that victim

STILL, THEN THE BULLY IS NEVER LOOKED AT.

I can barely see their faces,

But their names haunt me,

Past me,

But thank GOD can’t touch future me.

Now everything is different

I’ve tried to forget My pain

and get rid of the newer pain

And try not to feel even newer pain

I’m there,

Who sees?

I speak,

Who hears?

You there,

I see

You’re speaking

I hear

You torment

I cry

I’m filled with pain

I slowly resent myself

I share,

I love

I smile although it may be fake, but only due to pain

I do a lot,

That is good,

But you don’t see that

But I see you

And will always see you

Even after you turn to dust.

Not for the same reason, you may have hoped,

Or even expected,

But because although you hurt me,

In more ways than one,

Although nobody is going to see you for what you’ve done,

But I will.

You made me stronger,

In ways that would have never been the same if I’d gone through less dark,

Painful stuff.

Thanks and I mean that.

To those victims of bullying out there

Don't let them push you down

You’ll rise up one day