Unanswered

• Fatima Elcheikh, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2008

Why was I born?
Why do I have to live in this life?
Why do people have to judge everything I do?
Let me live
Let me breath
I am suffocating
I am dying
I look in the mirror everyday
But I see a different person in there
It’s not me who I see?
That’s not my face
Those are not my eyes
That were once filled with hope
Now I’m struggling to stay alive
I look around to find something to dig my arms with
To feel the pain
The inner pain is killing me
What about the outer pain?
What would it do to me?
I look around to find something sharp
There’s nothing!
Am I trying to kill myself?
That question is left unanswered…