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Look Me In The Eyes If You Dare

16, Burgess, Emily Clare

By Emily Clare BurgessPublished 4 years ago 1 min read
Look Me In The Eyes If You Dare
Photo by Perchek Industrie on Unsplash

Most people when they see me they look down

To the ground

Most people won't really listen look me - wow

Not a sound

Guess I'm the girl to be ignored

Don’t want to be seen with a weirdo

You know?

Run away when they see me

Don’t know how much it’s hurting

And they just don’t care

How could they, they're not aware

That I feel so much fear

Just to be myself here

They never care

I’m just too weird

Wish I wasn’t here

But they don’t care

That I no longer feel me

So ugly it depresses me

Isn’t it harder to be in my body

Than to look for a second at me?

If you did, maybe you’d see

The real me

And all of me

Unfiltered pain and misery

From ugly lessons you've thrown at me

By hating without knowing me

And being so incredibly shady

Ruining me as a person for

Nothing but making you seem more

But really you're so much less

When you act worse than your best

Look me in the eyes if you dare

Look at me if you can bare

It

If

So

Then go

Look me in the eyes if you dare.

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About the Creator

Emily Clare Burgess

Heyo…just a young girl with big dreams trying to make a difference in the world. Please have a wonderful day!

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