VERBALLY ABUSED

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They say sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words can’t hurt me

Well, forget words, what about what’s going on physically?

Kids committing suicide cause they’re being bullied

Homeboys killing their own homies

Girls being abused by their man

When will this nonsense come to an end?

I am speaking from experience

Saw it all, been bullied since I was six

Since first grade, been taunted, been teased

All just because I was doing me

What’s a girl gotta do to be treated like an equal?

Be a baby mama? Please, I got enough to hustle with

Tried to ignore the words for 10 years

But now I’m home crying in a bed full of tears

Feel like I’m dying

Like I’ve been stabbed in the stomach

 What am I supposed to do?

When I’m being verbally abused

Don’t wanna hurt myself

Don’t wanna kill myself

But what am I suppose to do?

What I ever do to you to make you do this to me?

Why are you  spreading rumors about me?

Doing this and that, they don't even sound like me!

Bullying and hating ain’t the same thing

Haters hate on you about the goals you’re reaching

Bullies go to the pressuring point

 Say yo mama some prostitute or yo daddy in the joint

This homie smoking crack

This chick sleeping with your man

Not even true, yet it hurts bad

Tried to ignore the words for 10 years

But now I’m home crying in a bed full of tears

Feel like I’m dying

Like I’ve been stabbed in the stomach

 What am I supposed to do?

When I’m being verbally abused

I’m in my room, frightened and scared

Of what’s gonna happen next, surrounded by fear

Abusive boyfriends

Suicidal kids   

Do you know that bullying could lead to this?

I’m sitting in this corner with tears in my eyes

I can’t even look in the mirror without feeling Imma die

Every word they attacked me with hit me real hard

It’s like my heart been murdered

Shot by a gun

Bullying's not a right

It’s a threat

Leading to someone’s death

Committing suicide, bullying causes this

We gotta stop the bullying now

Stop the bullying now 

Right now!

Tried to ignore the words for 10 years

But now I’m home crying in a bed full of tears

Feel like I’m dying

Like I’ve been stabbed in the stomach

 What am I supposed to do?

When I’m being verbally abused

 

 

 

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