I come home at night
So scared because I might
Be the center
Of another fight.
I might make mom and dad
So very mad
So then they scream at me
And I become so very sad
Yet tonight is not the same
Tonight my body is filled with pain
I take knife
And open a vein.
It hurts so
The knife I let go
The pain is let gone
The blood flows
I wash the cut
And return to the scene
And play the ultimate role:
A life that isn’t what it seems.