Write 

Like it’ll break your heart 

Just like you 

Love 

When high school starts 

 

I wrote a poem once

10th grade

About a bully

The girl read it 

And told me to take it down 

 

I wrote a poem once 

About a teacher who touched me 

I handed it to him 

And he touched me more 

 

I wrote a poem once

About how school takes away my voice 

How the good students crave a high

No matter where the come down takes them 

 

I took those poems once 

And made them into a book 

Nothing official 

Just some glue for some broken girl’s pieces 

 

 

 

The bully read it 

And couldn’t tell me to take it down 

 

The teacher read it 

And could no longer touch girls 

 

My school read it 

And I didn't wait for their reaction  

 

 

Write 

Like it’ll break your heart 

Just like you 

Hurt 

When high school ends 

Too early 

Two years early 

 

 

16

 

GED

Top of class turned into a

High school dropout 

Minimal contact with any kids from school 

 

Investigators at my house 

And there’s my book 

In their educated hands 

 

Highlighter marks in my cries for help 

Questions about things 

I couldn’t remember 

A man who I wanted to forget

They want to Piece together 

My Broken Pieces!

 

Faces

Young kids I would never see again 

Young kids I didn’t want to see again 

Kids who didn’t like it when I 

 

Wrote 

Like it would break their hearts 

Just like I started to 

Break 

When high school first began to start 

 

But poetry took away his power

To take away mine

Poetry took away her power 

To take away mine  

 

Poetry

Made me 

Powerful

When School

Robbed me of

Everything

I was

 

Poetry taught me to speak outside the lines.