A Dark Stormy Night

Courtney

Once upon a dark and stormy night

Many people were involved in a fight

A little girl watched from her windowsill

As the people in the street below began to fight without will

The area she lived in wasn’t very nice

The neighborhood was dark and damp and filled with mice

The crime rates were high and many robberies were clear

And everyday she wished she didn’t have to live here

Each night she looked out her window and wished upon a star

And her only wish was that she wished she would go far

Far away from where she was now

Because she knew if she stayed her future would only spiral down

She needed to get out but the opportunities were slim to none

But she knew the only solution could be solved with education

She went to school, but she didn’t fit in

Girls bullied her and for once the good didn’t win  

It got too much for her to handle, she was in a state of depression and continuing to fall down

If people noticed her at all, all they noticed was that she constantly had a frown

It was hard to be happy in a place where nobody knew your name

Yet they only judged you from the truth that they claimed

Years later an article in a newspaper read a girl had killed herself, the cause was unknown

No note was left, because she had no one she could call her own.

But the people who noticed knew it was because of the struggles she had

Nobody ever realizes what they do to someone can make them overwhelmingly sad.

Be careful what you say because you never know what the affect could be.

You don’t want to be the reason behind someone’s sadness that only they can see