TizRheaD Poetry: Bully

This is a poem that I wrote around this time in 2012, when things were at one of the lowest points I've ever encountered. It is about how I felt from being bullied at school to when I began to grow up afterwards. Everyone always said to rise above it because you're the better person, it took me far too long to realise why.

Take this advice from someone who’s been bullied their whole childhood

The knife, the drugs, the alcohol, don’t do any good

All the things they did are not taken away

It’s all a game to them and they expect you to play

Some people say that they are insecure

That they have unresolved feelings, still too raw

But we know it’s not true, those of us who have suffered

They’ve a thirst to prove they’re the ones that a tougher

Good or bad doesn’t come into it in the end

Because you’ll always find they’re the ones with more friends

But here’s a thought, to help you survive

You’re stronger than them from your own experiences in life

They couldn’t deal with the horrors you’ve faced

You know, the ones they’ve strategically placed

Those nights where you just want to jump

When people don’t realize, think you’ve just got the hump

You can get through it, because it will eventually halt

You’ll got on to better things that when you’re all adults

Although they won't fail, they’ll be successful, it won’t worsen

Because you don’t care about that, because you’re the better person