A Depressing Moment

• Dawn Vipinosa, Grade 9H
• Poetry
• 2010

A girl walks barefoot,
her shoes in her hand,
she walks on the beach,
on the wet sand.
She feels so sad,
she just had a fight,
with her mother and father,
who are ‘always right'.
She sits down sadly,
writes her name in the sand,
her full name is,
Sally Jay Pand.
She understands that,
sometimes life isn’t fair,
but no one seems to,
understand her or care.
Sally walks to the pier,
no one is in sight,
the sky is dark and foggy,
it is a cold and gloomy night.
The girl decides,
that living her life is no use,
after all those years,
suffering abuse.
She jumps into the water,
Sally goes under, it’s too deep,
she regrets her choice but,
she can’t swim and silently weeps.
The water goes over her head,
Sally can’t breathe anymore,
she dies of drowning,
the violent waves carry her to shore.