Totally OT.... ... I was watching the news earlier about that girl in the US who killed herself because of bullying and the kids who taunted her are now being charged with her death. It really affects me because I was one of those kids too and I can totally understand! I wasn't 'just' getting picked on, but I was accused of snitching on my so-called friends in the tough 'stoner' crowd. (And I
didn't! Not at all!!! I didn't say one single effing word about anything!) The lies grew and people were then saying the
school had confirmed to them that I was the one who told and got others put into jail. It was a nightmare. For almost 2 years people wrote sh*t about me, taunted me, threatened me, we had windows broken out of our house, I couldn't go anywhere alone, I had to switch schools and even there I ran into cousins of the guilty and had to live in fear. Believe me, I thought about killing myself many times. When you're 14 you can't escape. School and home... that's ALL you have. That's the
world. You can't pack up and move to start a new life. One day I had decided to kill myself (I can't promise just how determined I was... I mean, maybe I would've chickened out anyway) and I put my Thriller tape into my walkman. I listened to heavy metal a lot at the time (because it was like
demanded by my cool
"friends"), but MJ still stared at me from every inch of my bedroom walls nonetheless
a-hee-hee :wub: I listened then to WBSS and ... ohhhhh, Michael...
Michael, my dear love, how could I leave you? Why do I think you'd understand somehow (in 1986)? He told me to
know I was someone. Somehow the combo of his words and all the love did the trick. And over the years, as totally silly as it may sound to some, anytime things felt soooo bad that I just wanted to die I'd think... hey, then I'll never hear Michael's next album! :bugeyed I'll never get a chance to meet him! I'll never see him again! And I won't be here
to love him back And so MJ was always one of the reasons to keep on keepin' on. (P.S. And now he's an inspiration because of his strength through the darkest times. How he got through it all... is amazing.)
I read Zenab's song lyrics just now and I haven't barely written any poems for a few years, so I'm way rusty, but this one just came to me. It's just trying to express what I wrote above.
Saviour
All the dark moments that tore at my heart,
The days I thought there could be no start
Again for a life that's too much to take,
In a young mind
this moment puts
all at stake,
When friends turned away and failed to give
What little would offer some hope to live,
And over the years in love's fighting trench,
How much could there be for the soul to wrench?
Then why soldier on with absurd fortitude,
What for is the hope to stay out of this mood?
But I always thought I would see you again,
And - to know what is coming next and when!
What tune will reach to my soul with such ease
That just living that moment's enough to please?
And where would your destiny take you still,
I could not leave it solely to their worldly will,
Would fate see it fit to cross our paths once more,
Or forever from afar would I still you adore?
It may sound naive or from hope springing hope,
But never could I leave you alone to cope,
For you saved me in ways I could never explain,
And if one wish of mine could just once do the same,
If my love had reached you for a moment of bliss,
For that one hope alone I could not bear to miss,
Still longing for a glimpse of that sparkle of white,
Cast out to the darkness, the sweetest of light,
And together, yet far, so I promised to stay,
To not miss my saviour for one blessed day.