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Things-Not-As-They-Appear
The girl that’s outcast
You’ve put her on the Island of Misfit Toys,
Oh! Look she’s happy, content, and strange
So kind, caring, and open.
You ram into her while passing by in the hall,
You think it’s no big deal
Laughing and putting her down.
There’s a saying, You know it?
Out of sight out of mind,
But if you look around the corner,
She’s standing there listening to every word said.
You think she doesn’t care
But this girl hates herself
She hurts herself night after night before crying herself to sleep
Yet no one knows about her dad
An obsessive alcoholic
Or her mom who makes her feel like she’s not enough.
She misses school
Very sick in the hospital
Weeks have gone by
Yet no one noticed her absence yet
Until…
BREAKING NEWS
High school student passes away
Cancer steals her last breath from her hospital bed.

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This is the story of many people I know and I'm close to but all are compined into one powerful message. Everything in this poem represents big problems in even the best of high schools across the country.