You Or Everyone Else?

• Meakah Brazel, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2013

Have you ever known something but knew,
That if you ever told anyone they’d be crying to?
Too many questions fill your mind,
And that crushing feeling gets ready to bind.

You try to let it all out before you see anyone you know,
But it keeps building up from your head to toe,
Would you tell the people you love,
And give their life a little shove?

Would it be better to keep it in your own world,
Or share it by letting it be hurled,
Because it sure would hit someone really hard,
But not as much as you who’s barred.

By the time you’ve figured it all out,
They are all living without,
Their daughter or girlfriend,
Their sister or best friend.