Falling Apart

• Gigi Wellnitz, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2018

I come home everyday to my mum and dad fighting
Even at night I fear for my life
As they might come to hurl me into a bottomless black pit
My body is bruised, It's screaming at me
To end this torment we're going through
I'm crying blood - as I get beaten up
By the bullies who come at me like a flood
The water is bleeding
My head is screaming
So now I have no hope here
I'm sorry my friends
I truly am
I didn't want it to be this way
But I just have to go
To escape my nightmare in hell