I Am Poem

I Am a misunderstood 13 year old with a dream.

I Wonder what the future holds for me.

I Hear the sound of laughter around me amd I wonder if it's about me.

I See everyone's eyes looking at me and I wonder what they are thinking.

I Want my dreams to come true.

I Am a misunderstood 13 year old with a dream.

I Pretend everything will be okay even though...
...I Feel like nothing in the world can fix my problems in life.

I Worry about what others think of me.

I Cry to myself every night in the dark alone.

I Am a misunderstood 13 year old with a dream.

I Understand what it feels like when you think nothing in the world can help you.

I Say things will get better to myself everyday even though they just get worse.

I Dream of a world with no problems. Where everyone is equal. There is no such thing as judging others. There is no bullying. I dream of a world where everyone is kind to eachother and everybody gets along. I dream of a place filled with love and joy.

I Try my hardest to get my dream to become a reality in any possible way I can. Whether its helping someone with a small task or helping someone with a life problem. Anything helps. As Rachel Scott said, "I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go." If I help one person then they will feel grateful and in a good mood and they will help another person and and so on a chain reaction is built.

I Hope one day my dream comes true. Whether it's now when I'm alive or in the future when I'm dead. I don't care. I just want it to come true so others can live off of it. So there will be no more news reporters reporting that some teenager committed suicide because of bullies or not fitting in or whatever. I want it to be over. I want my dream to come true.

I Am a misunderstood 13 year old with a dream.


--Aaliyah G., 13