Note: Poet Warriors write with truth and purpose; this poem contains strong language, graphic details…
Life’s dark side
“WHY”
Why do people
Judge
Just by looks?
I was
Embarrassed
Scared, for life!!
Why?
That day
I thought would
Never end.
Until…..
A week later.
2-3 grade
The voices did not
Bother me.
But…
At home
My siblings would
SOMETIMES
Hurt me.
I felt the
Pain
As if matter in fact i
Started feeling
The other pain….
Why?
Why do the ones we
Love hurt us the
Most?
Why?
WHy do the ones we love
Leave when we
Need them the most?
WHy do people
insult or threaten
Us
As if we do
not have
Have feelings?
Why?
Why do the
people
We gave our all
Threw us away?
why ?
WHy do we
Sit here and
Let them
Push us
Around?
Why do we stay
There like
If Nothing happened?
And most importantly….
Why do we
Still let
Ourselves love the
Ones who hurt us
The most?
WHY?