Hope

• Elizabeth Atkins, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2017

Darkness. What has the world become?
It's like being stuck in the depths of the ocean.
It's murky and cold and terribly lonely.
Oxygen is my only hope.
They say it is depression.
They talk to me like I am a test subject
A nobody.
Like I don't have feelings at all.
My thoughts constantly drown me.
I scream so loudly,
but no one seems to hear.
How can the world burn so bright and then ... poof. .. all fails.
Have you ever wanted anything so badly in your life?
I don't want to be left with nothing
I want some meaning
I want this suffering to be worth while.