You Don't Know Me

• Natasha Ho, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2017

The world is shared and the choice is mine,
People say, “You have everything you want”
They say I’m not mad but at times I am
They say “I’m done; you’re impossible to me!”
The isolation, where the wind screams and the trees tug and fall.
They say, “You’re annoying, go away”
I don’t belong here, but they all just say,
“I’m only joking, or maybe not, but you have everything.”
So I see no point,
Points are one thing, but excuses are another.
My heart is empty, full of dark sorrows.
“Please, don’t do this; I know you’re in pain.”
“I can’t take it anymore, everyone’s loathing me.”
“Wait, don’t go, we mean no harm,”
But the thunder inside is weak and fake.
“Please don’t go, I know you’d give a second chance.”
I have given too many, the malice has won.
“You don’t know me.”