Are The Heroes The Villians?

• Grace Louey, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2022

When you were younger everyone told you to be a hero
You believed everything they said but you now realise
People only believe what he wrote
Everyone else must be villainised

I felt no warmth from the world
Until I watched it burn
It wronged me
So I destroyed it in return

People are classified as good or bad
Based on the decisions they make
But no one knows the options they had
Give them a break

Should I go left, where nothing is right
Or right where there is nothing left
I came into this world crying and everyone else smiling
I now leave smiling with everyone crying