Teenage Spirit

• Aisha Hayes, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2013

We all are different and we all do cry,
But it's all so hard to keep inside.
The bullies pull threats and we just get scared,
But we also feel defenceless and simply wrecked.
Imagine feeling sad or in the midst of depression,
We keep crying and never survive the mission.
You get bullied about your weight and you lack self-esteem,
Your opinion is fatal and the pain just beams,
Bullies in the network and bullies in the world,
This adds to the list, it's just absurd!!
Your friends turn against you and bullying gets worse,
You feel life sucks and that it's not worth a word
The world isn't peaceful and it's just really hard,
Let's hope they don't take the move to self-harm
But we manage somehow; after all, we are young,
Sometimes our smile is merely because we won.