Unhappiness- a portrait

• Brendan Jorgensen, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2006

Unhappiness- a Portrait
(By Brendan Jorgensen)
I don’t know why I'm so lonely
Is it because I have no friends?
Even my father never replies
To anything I send

Why does nobody like me?
Is it because of my race?
Or is it the fact that I have
Pimples on my face?

My parents are divorced
And I am not sure why
Sometimes it makes me want to
Dig a hole and die

Maybe I should just give up,
There probably is no hope
I think I will hang myself
Using wood and rope