You Won't Hurt Me

• Charli Jilbert, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2017

The pain I’ve felt from your words have hurt,
The feeling of hopelessness always coming back,
The words hurting me, making me cry and alert,
The fake happiness I have had to portray.
My soul broken apart from the pain like a fragile porcelain doll,
Your words cutting through my mind like a knife!
My insecurities will never be changed as if my mind was a black hole,
My heart broken in half from the burdens it has felt in my life.
Though within this bullying I am stronger,
I can take more of your hurtful words and not cry or worry,
I will not cower and cry from hearing your name.
I have put myself down long enough; the pain will be no longer,
My pain gave you happiness; but the pain I once had is now blurry,
My pain made me weigh a tonne but now I am light and do not take your games.