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Hate
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Hate, Ab
Hate, Abu
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Hate, Abuse
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Hate, Abuse, Sad

“Grades are getting low,
the teens are getting high.
That 12 year old is pregnant
and her parents wonder why.

A 1st grader is swearing,
a 3rd grader has been *****.
Just take a look around you,
isn’t the system great?

Who isn’t faded these days,
teens are sending nudes,
kids are getting beaten,
the teachers see the bruises.

No calls for help are spoken,
teens are smoking ****,
young girls are cutting,
this isn’t what we need.

The marks of taunt and yelling,
parents are divorced.
That 14 year old is drinking beer,
this can’t get any worse.

A little girl has killed herself,
nobody seems to care.
Another kid has been expelled
for a stupid dare.

But it needs to change.
Our world is officially broken.
It’s time to take a stand;
your thoughts need to be spoken.”

Thoughts are running wild
As the tears stream down my face.
Depressed and suicidal,
But I should just stay in my place.

I’m feeling kinda broken,
Feeling kinda lost.
I wanna make my pain
Just go away at any cost.

Don’t get me wrong, I grew up
In a nice enough neighborhood.
And I did everything that
Anybody said I should.

But it wasn’t enough.
It wasn’t me.
I thought that I could help the world
With the things I’ve seen.

My cousin lost herself
In drinking hard and smoking ***.
My good friend tried to run away
And lose her past a lot.

I, myself, have struggled
With thoughts of losing it all.
The pro and cons of jumping off
That cliff into the free fall.

I mean if there's something that can save me
Then it'll show up, right?
It's worth the wait to take a blade to my wrist
And **** it up, right?

The truth is, I don't know
How to do this and win the fight.
I need someone to show me
There's still a ray of light.

I fell into a pit of despair
And it consumed me.
I guess the only way to help the world
Was to lose me.

Finding myself is gonna take a while.
Don't know if I can make it.
Keep giving out my heart
Hoping someone will take it.

Drinking, smoking,
Doing everything to make me numb.
Doing stupid things.
Making people call me dumb.

Popping pills like candy
Just to get me through the day.
Trying to end it all;
To make the pain just go away.

It wasn't perfect. Never.
It wasn't good enough for anyone.
So I always sat alone
And wished my life was done.

~Ashton Grayson Everly

Once upon a time in a world so grey.
A little girl of age 15 got into some things she shouldn't have seen.
She smoked, pricked and snorted unlegalised meds.
Once she placed that paper piece on her tongue the colours returned to the world once again.
At a lick of a paper and the smoke from a flame. This little girl had herself to blame.
Struck with self hate and nothing more.
Pour one after another.
She loved the smell, better yet the taste.
As smoke arose in her lungs and drugs in her veins.
She was a good kid but broke on the inside. Everyone leaves her except this one guy.
She wants him to go but he won't.
She doesn't understand why he doesn't want her to grab a rope.
She ignores his pleas and looks in his eyes, as she downs another crystallised surprise.
Inhale and exhale.
Hold only for 3.
Twist the bub, not the lighter, and smoke, then repeat.
Don't burn the fluid or you'll have to restart. Just like her life she wishes she could do over. Once upon a time in a world so grey.
There was a little girl who wanted nothing more than drugs and drinks.