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A Troubled Kid

November 5, 2020
By Spirit-Myndelia BRONZE, Convoy, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
What is stronger than the human heart that shatters over and over and still lives - Rupi Kaur

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A troubled kid,

That's all I am to you,

I don't try,

I don't care,

I would let them stare,

You really hate my hair,

But, is that really the reason they stare?

I am damaged, 

Broken,

Used,

Decaying, 

As if I'm a rotting apple,

There's only so much good left,

Until it, all decays.

Slowly there isn't going to be an apple left. 

© Sared S., Pompton Plains, NJ

The author's comments:

This is a piece about my depression and the way my parents talk about me and the way they make me think!  But keep in mind that's what they think, nothing your parents or other people say makes it true!

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