I said I wouldn't live past thirteen
And at fourteen I cried saying I wasn't going to make it that year
Im fifteen turning sixteen
My wrists are stilling, showing
So truly, what am I still doing?
I was supposed to be a therapist
I beg till this day, to cut all of my bones
My hands still shake when I write
I seem so sad for a girl who wants to live
I have so many I cannot count
They sound me gifts and love
And yet I can still feel myself drifting away
SImply because I want to keep my emotions at bay
I would rather die than let them see who I kill late at night
Waking up by the dawn light
I was put on this earth for a reason
But what if my reason was to be a lesson?
To teach that boy I loved that girls are not to be played with
To teach my uncle little girl's make you sin
To teach my best friends people come and go
What if my purpose is to choose death and go
I will become an angel for what I have done
Teaching those to not become undone
What if I am the reason why my father slipped away
All that is left for me to do is die
Leave them with the lessons I gave away
I was supposed to be a lawyer
Read all the law books possible as a fourteen year old
Criminal law or medical malpractice
Either way, I was going to save them all
The lingering question wandered
What if you have to save a rapist
What if that doctor did say the f slur
What if the person you have to protect is you
And you know damn well you aren't good
I was supposed to be an artist
Writing songs rather than singing them
Watch as someone else sang my feelings away
Knowing I was the one who wanted everything to go away
But I gave them the chance to sing
What am I left to do but drink?
If I was a songwriter now
This would be turned into a song
And an unknown indie artist who has never worked a day in their life
Would have called relatable
And lust over the way my feelings transform
I am supposed to be a nurse
Taking free online classes
Saving those who are hurt
I will have to save a child who kills their mother someday
And I will have to live with the fact a little boy died of cancer
Writing this down still gives me OCD to this day
I am talking to this girl
She is what keeps the horrors at bay
But sometimes I feel that love slipping away
Knowing I begged and begged for love like this to come my way
I is what I am going through
I do not know what I am doing
I am writing a poem about how I do not know what to do
I sit here with nothing on my school credit
Besides one D and five hundred A's
I do not volunteer and I can't seem to care
What a great time to choose being a nurse
I think about my own suicide a lot
Maybe in college or nursing school I faked getting into
Everything you see is fake
I am not doing what I am saying I am doing
And I won't be asking the same silly question