No One, But Me

by Danielle E. Kirchner {Cancer} - Not entered

No smiling faces.
All of them against me,
The weak one.
Sure, I can be strong at times,
But, only when I have to be.
Only when the others need me.
I carry their burdens.
I never let on about my own.

No one knows how much I cry.
No one knows how much I hurt inside.
No one, but me.

So I sit and eat.
So I sit and drink.
I try to drown the pain.
I only succeed in feeding it.
I help it grow.

No one knows how much I cry.
No one knows how much I hurt inside.
No one, but me.

Reason for writing:

    I wrote it in the eighth grade when I had a really bad 
reputation.  No one would be my friend, except my neighbors.
Every day during lunch I would cry my eyes out, and when I 
got home from school I'd cry again.  I even thought about 
killing myself.  I never did it though.  I started writing 
my feelings down on paper, and turned it into poetry (even 
"bad" poetry like this).  This poem is one of those that 
came of it.    

Birth sign: Not entered
Date created: 1996-11-26 18:23:28
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:39:09
Poem ID: 46120

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