POEM STARTER
Submitted by Lola
Write a poem about trying to resist temptation.
Bloody Tissues
**_*TW: SH (self harm)! If this topic triggers you, please don’t read the following. Your mental state and health matters!*_**
A teacher says to me
“You should have been listening!”
_I was but I didn’t understand!_
My mind shouts,
But I don’t speak.
My throat tightens,
It feels like I can’t breathe.
_Just, don’t cry._
I hold back the tears
And blink rapidly.
_You went down _
_8 whole point _
_From last time!_
Another voice
In my mind
Speaks.
_You friends are just faking _
_Still having faith in you. _
_They’ll leave you _
_Just like she did!_
_She left because she _
_Couldn’t deal with all_
_Your problems,_
_Clean up your act _
_And drag the knife across the _
_Flesh colored background!_
__
I think about what the voice said,
It can’t be so bad?
I shake my head, no,
I can’t. __
__
_Oh, you are so useless. _
_You only won that writing contest _
_Out of pity. _
__
I want to deny what they say,
But I fear I believe them.
_Your the reason things have changed!_
_Maybe you should give yourself _
_The pain you deserve!_
__
The temptation is killing me!
“I am falling to their demands,”
I wisper as I stare.
I stare at the red liquid flowing
Down my legs.
Oh, the pain,
It’s so… comforting?
_No, you can’t cut yourself!_
_Why did you listen?_
__
The first voice returns.
“The temptation was to strong,
It pulled me in like a whirlpool.
I… I’m sorry!”
Tears pour down my face
As I use tissues and bandages
To clean myself up.
Why? Why did I fall to their words?
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