A Moment
Put yourself
Within a moment
Of my life
When I overheard
You saying
What you did
Behind my back
With the razors
That you had
Promised you
Would never use
To do anything
But shave your
Legs, Maybe
Even your underarms.
You promised to
Never do that
Again, to call
Me before the
Urge to self-destruct
Became too much
For you to bear,
Before the blood
Turned red
And you passed out
In a crumpled heap
Upon your bathroom
Floor until you
Mom found you
There.
She rushed you
To the hospital
Wondering where
She had went wrong
In teaching you
About self respect
And pride in everything
About yourself.
Put yourself
Within a moment
Of my life
When you went
Insane and left
Me alone in
Math class while
You were sent away
To rehab for your
Cutting with nickle-plated
Metal, and your
Never eating causing
Something to go
Horribly wrong
Because you grew
Fainter everyday,
And no one even
knew who you
Were,
Even after you
Had left.
The multiplication
Became more complicated,
Where once read
Two times two
Equals four,
There read
Two times two
Equals me
Minus you
Because the
Shadows had
Covered your eyes,
Making the hazel
Look like
The black of
Your pupils.
Put yourself
Withing a moment
Of my life
And realize
High school
Is not easy
Being under the
Pressure to conform
To the will
Of society,
To prove our progress
Of eating and
Repeating the
Information that was
Regurgitated to us
By some person,
Who, underneath
It all, is as
Blind and illiterate
As an unborn
Baby, like the
Rest of the world.
Never has anyone
Took a walk in
Another's shoes,
Because, as someone
Once said
To me,
They would trip
And fall trying.
Resist as I might,
You force me to
Want to relieve
Stress in the
Way that you do,
Through bleeding
Truth red,
Cutting my veins,
And stopping to
Eat, just to be
Comfortable in a
World of stick-figures.
Despite all this
Pressure of living
Too many moments
Of my own life,
I have a perfect
Life, and I'm
Proud of not
Conforming to your
Life while I lived
A moment there.
But I still think
Of you as
A best friend