A girl in my school

A poem about a girl who's love isn't shared, narrated by someone else who's watching from the outside.

A girl at my school starves herself

Because she feels pain

So to make that pain go away

She doesn’t eat a lot

 

You see this girl is afraid

That her heart may be broken

Because someone she loves hates her

That girl doesn’t know what to do

 

So to distract her brain from the pain

She hurts her arms and stomach

Cutting through the muscle and skin

Unable to eat a little food

 

This girl in my school wants to die

But no one can see her pleas

So she finds a vice that’ll help her cope

As her love stabs her heart twice

 

I saw this girl yesterday

Smoking pot by the dock

 I turned away for a minute

Then back again to see

 

And thus the water was rippling

The girl was nowhere insight

Her broken heart on the dive board

A dragonfly necklace with its wings broken off

 

She didn’t come to school the next day

Or for a year after

But one day the police told us

She’d drowned in the sea

 

No one was really sad

Not like many noticed

But the boy she loved looked slightly irked

So I guess I felt some pleasure

 

I went to the drive board and sure enough

There he sat on his own

The dragonfly necklace was in his hand

I guess he was the one who took it

 

The boy sat there for two hours

Before getting up

He walked to me with a tearstained face

Weakly smiling to me

 

‘Please tell her I’m sorry; I didn’t know what I was doing’

But we both knew it was too late to apologise

Because that girl had died miserable

All because he had never said sorry

For dragging her heart about

Author's Note

Please give me your honest opinion of this piece :)