The Enemy

• Cindy Counsell, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2018

You almost won.
You became who I was and consumed who I used to be.
You were the warped wall of unattainable standards society calls beauty that I must live up to.
People tried to fix me but it was more than sadness, and I was more than broken.
Because how DO you fix something that seems so beyond repair?
Hide it.
So I hid.
I tried to mask the tears with a smile and the self-despair for self-love.
But it was no use because you cannot hide from yourself.
And you can’t sit back and wait for the hate to leave and for it all to be better.
Because that’s not how it works.
Nothing is that easy.
Not school, not work, not making friends, or keeping them and most certainly not life.
Life seems so unfair until you realise it’s unfair to everyone and that is just how life works out.