This is a poem I dedicate to a sweet boy that I knew back in middle school. He committed suicide a few years back because he was bullied horribly in high school. The night of the funeral so many people showed up to pay their respects that everyone couldn't fit inside the church. Rest in Peace.
“Sound the Alarm for Someone in Need”
Has simply being kind to one another become such a drudgery task?
I ponder this grievous question so often; I feel the need to ask
Why friendships and civility have become something to feign
And people seem to really not comprehend the magnitude of pain
That harsh words and snide comments can inflict
Upon an ego, a person’s heart that is already terribly sick
You never really can tell the hardships any one person could bear
So I ask you once again, Why Wouldn’t you treat them fair?
How have they wronged you? What ever have they done?
That has impelled you to taunt, and see treating them wrongly as fun
What do you get out of this, a laugh, an expedient way out?
Instead of behaving generously, and choosing a more difficult route
Surely you were raised better, Go hang your head in shame
If all the while you’ve been so mean, to achieve a little more fame
And aren’t we just as much to blame, for so long have we let this go
With eyes not so blind as biased, and hearts oh so shallow
To refrain from stepping in for someone who has done no one harm
To sit by aimlessly and watch, instead of sounding the alarm
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