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Open Your Eyes

December 8, 2014
By nobelstar BRONZE, HIghland Park, Illinois
nobelstar BRONZE, HIghland Park, Illinois
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Open your eyes
Live inside reality
The world isn't a fairy tail
It's not a place with princesses and ponies wrapped with colors of pink and gold
But it's a place of death and destruction
Black
&
Red
You’ve been dreaming a dream you whole life that the world is a perfect picture.
Wake up!
Someone out there is picking the gun up to their head,
or scraping the knife against their precious flesh
because of the comment you thought was funny but was straight out rude.

Open your eyes
See the complexity of life
One day you’re going to find out that you’re not the “most important person in the world”
You hurt people people.
You think it is funny when you tease that shy girl.
Or that gay boy.
You know what? They are being themselves, on the other hand you are making that impossible for them.

Open your eyes
When you push that boy down in the hallway
When you call that girl weird
The world is losing more, and more lives because of you and your “funny” jokes
You don’t realize but people are dying because of your
nasty
  little
   comments

Open your eyes
Welcome to how people see you.
How could be so oblivious?
Have you not heard the word bully before
Because I’m pretty sure, you are not aware that you are one.
Does hurting people make you feel happy?
Or do you just not have better things to do than pick on the kids with minor flaws.

Open your eyes
When you work at a coffee shop
and the boy you teased finds the cure for cancer
is when you will truly realize that those flaws aren’t weaknesses
they are strengths

Open your eyes
Face the reality that everyday,
more than 5,000 people try to die because of those small jokes
that creates a burning hole in everyone’s chest.
You and your crew of tormentors
should be aware of what you create.
ZOmbies
Moping around all day wanting to eat more and more brains.
Except those “zombies” are depressed teenagers with lack of self confidence
Those zombies aren’t moping for brains,
they mope to be happy again.
They are inhuman.

Open your eyes
You created an army of injured soldiers
Creating waterfalls of blood as they cut through their own flesh
Blood streaming into the battlefields of death.
What ever it is you created it.
You made the army this way,
You created that army

Open your eyes.
Realize that you created something that can’t be changed.
Somethings you say can’t be fixed with a simple sorry.
Somethings you say stick with people forever.
Somethings you say make an impact on someone’s life
And NOT a good one.
Somethings you say can never be taken back
Ever

Open your eyes
FInd that small part in your heart to stop
Don’t keep the army fighting
Make those zombies human again
Help the disaster you created
or the world will become
infected
plagued
infested
The world will become a place with thunder clouds covering the sky
Oceans of Blood
and MOuntains of Death

Open your eyes
Live inside reality
The world isn't a fairy tail
It's not a place with princesses and ponies wrapped with colors of pink and gold
But it's a place of death and destruction
Black
&
Red
You’ve been dreaming a dream you whole life that the world is a perfect picture.
Wake up!


The author's comments:

This piece is about my experience with bullying and how I didn't deal with it. I am still being bullied and still am not dealing very well with it, if anything worse.


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