Both Perspectives

Sat, 04/12/2014 - 05:49 -- C_Bass

Location

Spring Arbor University
106 East Main St.
United States
38° 33' 21.9744" N, 86° 28' 1.9164" W

You, you really wanna blame me

For acting the way I am, even though you don’t know me fully?

You think I’m a bully

 

You think I do this just to get a laugh

Because you think I will never be good at anything else, ‘cause I’m daft

 

Well then, you really don’t know me then do yah?

 

Knees bent, head throb, stomach clenched

Covered in sweat and blood, completely drenched

 

Vomiting my lunch out from the pain and hurt

Feeling like I should be six feet under the dirt

 

Telling me I’m worthless, that I’m a complete jerk

Telling me that I would be better off merked

 

That’s what you makes me feel like

 

Making me feel all alone because you probably have a family

A mom who loves you, and a hard working daddy

 

Well guess what, my mom is dead

And my dad’s a deadbeat

 

Because he beats me for not getting his beer to him soon enough

And when he’s yelling at me, I don’t feel so tough

 

No, I don’t feel tough at all when you're beating me

Threatening to take my lunch money so you can go on eating

And if I don’t, well then I’ll get a good beating

And the whole thing repeats, at our next meeting

 

Every time I walk home it’s all the same thing

Dad’s watching TV, telling me to get is fifth alcoholic drink

 

And after doing so, I then retreat to my room

Where I clench my fists, cut my wrists, and think about my inevitable doom

 

And you say that I’m doing this for fun

 

Maybe if you see what my life is like, than you’ll understand why I do this to you

 

Getting home, all bloody and bruised

Mom having a heart attack asking me how I got misused

Because I always get misused, by you and your dudes

And when she demands a response from me, I refuse

 

Because I know if I tell, you’ll kill me

 

At least that’s what you said

 

When you threatened to tell about “fun” that I have with you

Yeah I pull out my knife and threaten to end you

 

Because if my dad finds out what I’ve been doing

 

He’ll kill me too, because that bastard doesn’t have anything better to do

 

But come to think about it the only person who will benefit from my death, is you

 

‘Cause if I’m dead, than you’ll feel like you’ve succeeded

‘Cause if I’m dead, than you will think that I have conceded

But if I’m dead, than you’ll just go pick on someone else on this earth

But if I’m dead, than you’ll know for a fact that I am of no worth

 

But I can’t handle the pain anymore, and the feeling that no one will help me

 

So maybe it’s time for you to succeed

And me to conceded

 

And end the pain now

Comments

C_Bass

Before you get confused, let my explain the colors:

This spoken word is designed to be spoken by two people.  The bully and the victim.

Red is the bully talking

Blue is the victim talking

Black means their both talking at the same time.

Hopefully this clears it up a little bit.

C Bass

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