Slam Poem – Mary Werner

I’m walking down a blank white hall way

In fact I do it everyday

You avoid eye contact with everyone and anyone you don’t know

And it’s not because you don’t care, but because you’re afraid of what you don’t know

Do you know what’s it’s like to be a “fossil chick” when you don’t drive a brand new car

Or when you are not upper or lower class but in the middle

To be the girl that has to go home to a stressed out mother

And a plastered father

To not look like a Barbie because you can’t afford to have pre mature plastic surgery.

To love others but not have the capabilities to feel it back.

You don’t know because our eyes never meet

You don’t know that every day comes a different struggle with a diagnosis of

Anxiety 101

 

I’ve always envied the kids that can’t wait for school to end

It’s the life when you have to tell your sister you don’t know if everything will be ok

The life where all you know it to pick up a bottle because that’s how your “role models” do it

Because when it ends the home begins

In this crazy whirlwind of chaos and hatred.

Where is Peter Pan when you need him?

I wouldn’t wish this life on a soul

Because you don’t anymore

It’s where depression is a “phase” because you’re being dramatic

I’m walking down a blank white hall way

In fact I do it everyday

Do you see what you don’t know?

 

By oRIDGEinal

Remy Garguilo is the Sponsor of the oRIDGEinal literary magazine at Fossil Ridge High School.