"They sit beside you in math class
Check out your items at the store
They’re the girl crossing the street
The boy who holds open the door
But beneath their fake demeanor
Lies a soul deep inside
The mind of the addicted
You’d be afraid of what you’ll find
Allison wants nothing more than to be thin
But keeps packing the food away
So she yanks for finger deep down her throat
Watching the shame leave her body every day
She doesn’t look sick, because she’s got them all fooled
So no one looks for the signs
Until her heart stops on the street
And they’re forced to say good-bye
Veronica’s skin is covered with cuts
That flare red beneath her sleeves
Next to her newly failed paper lies her silver savior
And she goes to her world of make-believe
Her body was found by her father
Last Friday with a bullet in her head
Across her arms was written
All the words she’d never said
And Anthony sits at the table
As his parents argue on
Up in his room, he puts the heroin in his veins
And suddenly, their screaming is gone
But he injected a little too much, you see
And he knows it’s all coming to an end
He accepts this as the heroin kicks in
His sister finds him dead
Teens who fell to their salvations
The thing that got them through the day
What they thought was a way out
But it only took everything away
Allison is your best friend
Looks the same but eats far too much
Veronica is your neighbor
Who blames her new cat for her brand new cuts
And Anthony is the outcast
Who sits nest to you in class
All three seem so strong
All three as fragile as glass
No one heard their silent cries
Or saw their hidden screams
Now they’re trapped forever
In their unforeseen dreams
They didn’t want this to happen
They never wanted to die
But that, my friends, is the cold hard truth
It‘s the addicts lullabye"
That's the unedtited copy of a poem maybe by a friend of mine in one of my guilds. I thought it was so powerful that I wanted to post it here....
So thank you, Guardian of the Forgotten! It really truly is fantastic.
 Figmented Imagination · Fri Dec 05, 2008 @ 12:15am · 0 Comments |
