You make my life livable

You make my smile believable

You make my laugh true

You make me happy

But the thought of you one day being gone makes me sad

But based on my reputation I'll be fine

Based on my reputation I'll move on soon

Based on my reputation you won't matter after a few days

But reputations lie

Because if you were gone my life will be less bearable

Because if you were gone my smile would always be fake

Because if you were gone I would never be able to truly laugh

Because if you were gone my smile would disappear

I love you more than anyone before
So if you were gone my heart would shatter completely

It would forever be in pieces

He’s mine
He’s hers
Here comes
The fight
He says
I’m
More of
A friend
Than her
We sit
Across
From each
Other
He touched
My leg
With his
I freak out
When I’m near
Him but
I’ve gotten
Better
It’s almost
Too late to
Tell him I like him
My friend
Has never
Had a friend
That’s a boy
I have
Some of my
Closest friends
Are boys

Bullies
By: Ben Crump

I feel their judging glares
As i am walking down the hall they stare
People boasting about themselves,
But i sit back and conceal

I hear the people talking behind my back
Being hit with a brick, but i try to stay on track

The ones who pass me
They don't know my story
But they will never know
How much it can hurt

It starts to get worse
Teasing turns to bullying
Pushing me when they notice me
Their intentions unknown

I try to ignore them
But they just get harder
It starts to turn more physical
They start to hit me
I feel the bruises forming
I try to tell the counselors
They say “There probably just playing”
I try to tell my parents
They say “You’re overreacting”

Stress builds up in me
I cry myself to sleep
My grades start to drop
The pain keeps growing

I try to tell them to stop
But they just get harder
One by one they join
My friends see right past it

One day we got in a fight
Throwing punches, pow, slap
It ended up badly for me,
On the floor bleeding

The color of the blood
Was a rising sun
The blood was gushing out
As fast as a geyser
I laid there for what felt like hours
But it was only minutes

I pick myself up out of a puddle of blood
Excruciating pain rushed through my body
The fighters were gone
I limp and wadle my way
To some help, because i can't stay

I crawled my way to the nearest door
I juggled the handle
It didn't move
I try the next the door, the same happens

I start to panic
Fear spikes through me
Blood still spilling
I let out a scream

Blood curdling scream pierced the silence
Echoing through the halls
I start to hear footsteps
They were coming closer
I start to black out
The last thing i saw was a face

I wake up in a hospital bed
An IV stuck to my arm
Stitches everywhere
Bandages everywhere

My mom walks in
She sees i am awake
She says i am going to be ok
But am i truly

The police rule the injuries as just an accident
When i heard that i was enraged
I try to tell everyone it wasn’t
But they don't believe me

I don't know what happens
In the outside world
Because i am attached in a hospital bed

I start to become transparent
I start losing friends
The doctor prescribes me opioids
Hoping addiction doesn't add to injury
I take them anyways
Because i can't bear the pain

Yes it sounds like i am whining
But i am telling my story for a reason
Bullying is the worst thing in our schools
And only you can stop it
I know i will remember everything
And i hope they will never forget
Because i now have scars for life
And am in a hospital bed
At the age of 14

I wake up in the dark,
Terrified and unable to move.
Trapped in the iceberg that has become of my room.
Encapsulated in a dull mist.
The clock on my wall chimes 3 o’clock.
Again, I’m up at the witching hour.
For the third week straight.
Just thinking of you.

Blinding white light makes its way through the night and drips through the curtains,
While the bracing wind dances with the flowers you gave me so long ago,
Sitting in their vase and wilting,
Still all alone.
I look at them and I remember that night in December.
Encapsulated in a dull mist.
I crawl my way out of my cradle in the catacombs,
As I stir like a cat in a box.
Every day for me is an equinox.

I make my way to the wall full of pictures,
The wall that always brings up a few snickers.
I see braces on smiles,
I smell gummy bears and  I somehow hear laughs.
But although I know we’re there,
I can’t see me and you anywhere.
We are encapsulated in a dull mist.
Together
Yet
Apart.
Encapsulated by a dull mist.