People are slow to listen

Yet dont hesitate to speak

When someone says something “ bad”

Words from other mouths begin to leak

No one thinks about actions

Nor considers their words

As soon as they don’t like it

All thoughts fly over like birds

She misses those old days

The days when she was a kid

Not being hated nor laughed at

Not judged for the things she did

Now she’s grown up

Everyone’s now different

They mock and torture others

As if they’re hearts have a dent

She always spends an hour

Trying to figure out what to wear

She has to choose perfectly

So others won’t shame without care

Calling her names

Judging her looks

Everyone around her

Are joy thieving crooks

She has to eat to not be called skinny

But not too much that she is body shamed

Other full of hatred

Acting like it’s to them that she is tamed

She has to be smart

Because that’s the stereotypical way

But then if she’s too smart

No one wants to be her friend and walks away

She has to be filled with joy

Because she doesn’t have a reason to be sad

Every time something bad happened

Everyone told her she should be glad

No one knows the thoughts in her head

And how she cries every night

No one checks on her

Asking if she’s fighting the fight

For years and years

She fought to her very best

Little did others know

She weight that was on her chest

No one knew her pain

Because they never cared to ask

Maybe if they did

She wouldn’t wear a fake mask

Maybe if they cared

They wouldn’t in tears

Sitting there at her death bed

Trembling in fear

Fear of what they’ve done

And how they never thought about her

Never even realizing

That her life to them was a blur

One day everyone will realize

What happens when their judging’s at peak

They’ll realize they were slow to listen

Yet didn’t hesitate to speak

Check up on the ones you know, you never know what they got going on