You Could Have Been the Difference

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 23:20 -- DAISYD

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92530
United States
33° 38' 21.2496" N, 117° 23' 6.54" W

She’s standing all alone.
She wants to be noticed.
She smiles at you,
but all you do is walk away without a second glance.
Not knowing that it took all her courage and strength
to smile at you even though she felt like shit.

She shrugs it off.
She’s already used to it,
but that doesn’t stop the pain.
She wonders what’s wrong with her.
Why isn’t she ever good enough?
Why does she have to go through this?

She gets home and what does she see?
Her mother being beaten by her father,
bleeding and screaming.
Her mother stares at her like this is all her fault.
While her father stares at her with lust.

She runs upstairs and locks the door.
She drops to the ground
and weeps her woes.
Tomorrow will be a new day, she says
Little did she know it will be the end.

Tomorrow arrives and she goes to school.
She gets made fun of and is abused.
She sees you again and what do you do?
You ignore her and let them bully her.

She can’t take it anymore.
She’s had enough.
Nobody wants her, she’s just dust.
She gets home and gets bottles of pills.
She sits on her bed and she lays still.
She swallows all of them and waits for the end.

If only you would have noticed.
If only you would have smiled.
You could have been the difference
between her death or survival.

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