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Do you see me?

September 9, 2021
By k_perez-horn05 BRONZE, Flora, Illinois
k_perez-horn05 BRONZE, Flora, Illinois
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Do you see me?

When someone says my name

Do you hear weird and strange 

Or popular and cool


Do you see me?

When you talk to me how am I perceived?

Maybe standoffish or rude

Maybe cold and judgmental


Do you see me?

When youre my friend, what do you think of me?

Maybe funny and outgoing

Maybe a sad sob story. 


Do you see me?

When my name comes up on a long list at school.

A lot of moving and drug records, okay that's cool,

So they assume I'm bad right?

Right? Wrong. 


Do I see me? 

When someone says my name I wonder who I am.

My parents don't even know me, man.

They are gone I don't know where they are

Probably doing coke or meth somewhere across the yard 


Do I see me?

Trust, something I don't do easily 

Maybe if I had love it would be breezy 

Laughter, what a wonderful sound

Might be nice if my brother was around

 

Do I see me?

16 different birthdays I spent sad and alone

So i'm sorry for the hurt that comes from my home

School, is easy when you have family, money and a place to live

Ever sign your own self up for school I sure did


Does anyone see me? 

Drugs, a bad way to get through 

But I do

I raised myself that's right 

I tuck my own self in bed at night. 

Court cases 

Druggie places 

Drunk tears and sad ears

Broken glass and gun fights 

Maybe thats why im always in fright 

I guess the question is 

Now do you see me? 


The author's comments:

There is always a story, behind every person. Sometimes we judge without knowing the dificulties of others. Its time we start looking deaper into the people we surround ourselves with. 

This is a true story about my best friends life and what she deals with on a daily basis. She doesnt have the words to express herself. So I wrote her story for her, I am her voice. 


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on Sep. 25 2021 at 7:21 pm
Rsnail-925 PLATINUM, Boulder, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
A story has as many versions as it has readers - Winter Of Our Discontent

This is so moving, thank you

on Sep. 24 2021 at 1:51 pm
k_perez-horn05 BRONZE, Flora, Illinois
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thank you

on Sep. 17 2021 at 6:59 pm
12376-astravo SILVER, Centennial, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
" A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even though there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." - Junot Diaz

" Overnight Success is almost a myth. Half of this industry is luck, and half is the refusal to quit" - Victoria Schwab

Amazing that's all I can say

on Sep. 11 2021 at 2:14 pm
k_perez-horn05 BRONZE, Flora, Illinois
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Bridgettestarns thank you so much<3

on Sep. 10 2021 at 12:03 pm
bridgettes BRONZE, Rolla, Missouri
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I love this.