Teenage Girl Everyday Struggle

• Kaylee Murray, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2020

Depression, anxiety it's all to hard
She's always calling me name like retard
Why can't I be more pretty she said
If I am pretty he will like me
Mum said be Who I want to be
But that's not enough...
Make up, hair and showing clothes
The struggle the thoughts are real
There's no life deal
It is what it is
But I just have no courage to tell Mrs
But what if...
I did, I could, I would! Honest to god.
Should I just smile and nod.
Help me please before I drown in a pool
Of water no lake to be found and I hit
Rock bottom, the floor.