Two Voice Poem

Social Issue- Bullying and Abuse

________= both voices

Bold= voice 1

Italics= voice 2

I try to hide from the world.

I turn the other way in school and run to my class.

I hide under the bed when I hear footsteps on the stairs.

I cry.

I run away and cry because I can’t fit in.

I curl in a ball and cry because I’m weak and hurt.

I am what they are sometimes- a bully, because of my anger when I am being bullied.

I scream at my little brother for being so obnoxious and stupid.

I scream at myself for giving in and letting them see me hurt.

I can’t relax and I can’t go to sleep at night.

I have nightmares of what they are going to say to me tomorrow.

I hide under the covers wide awake, afraid they’re going to come up for me in my sleep.

I burn and bleed.

On the inside I am dying.

On the outside I am bruising.

I sometimes wish I’m dead.

I have no friends in school.

I have no family that loves me.

I starve myself.

At lunch I don’t eat, instead I hide in the bathroom stalls.

I eat no meals because no one cares enough to make me one or let me make one myself.

I hate them.

They are selfish and try to hurt me.

They don’t love me or care about me like they should.

I’m keeping this secret about them.

I don’t tell my parents teachers because I don’t want to be a rat. 

I don’t tell anyone because I’m not allowed outside. 

I am abused and bullied.

By the words of hate from the popular crowd in school.

By my parents’ rough, hard hands, their leather belts and anything else they could find. 

      My two voice poem is about bullying/ abuse.  Basically bullying physically and verbally.  When the speakers both say one line at the same time, it is emant to show the simalrities as to how they feeling.  But when they are speaking separately is is meant to show the differnt reasons as to why they are feeling that way.  Voice 1 gets bullied in school because she can't fit in ans she'differnt from the others- herself.  Voice 2 gets bullied by her parents, actually physcially abused.  These people are both suffering greatly in same ways but for differnt reasons why.

      I chose to write about bullying/ abuse because they are both popular issues.  Also there is a lot of controversy over them with laws and prohibitions.  There is a lot of bullying going on in schools, everyday and a lot of child abuse.  These things may not be constant but they definitely happen quite often.  But people winder what goes on through everyone's heads and this poem explains it.  How they get treated, why they get treated and why they don' t do anything about it and the effects.  Everyone has been bullied at least once in their lives or have been the bully and that is why I chose this topic, because it is popular and relateable.