I NOT STUPID TOO. I JUST NOT SMART

Swollen eyes
Carried sparks
Of rebellious attitudes and
Unbeatable stubbornness.
She burned with a fever late at night
Went to school the next day
Oh, she was an interesting sight.

She wore bruises
Sourcing from last night’s rendezvous.
A body aching with leaden pain
And swollen glands from dehydration
Oh, she was indeed an interesting sight.

She knows no rules
And acts like a bumbling fool
Words did not pass vulgarity filters
Tempers rose high up to the heavens
Then that’s when she begin to fight
Oh, she was an interesting sight

Arguments never end
To the police many times she was sent
Drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, what did she not touch?
She was growing worse
And the abuse grows severe
Yet she feels no fear
Oh, she was indeed an interesting sight

Many guesses, many speculations
Rumours and gossips burned hot
When she was found on the ground
A pool of cardinal water
Soaking her favourite white shirt
Bones broken by impact of her fall from twenty-seven storeys
Oh, she was an interesting sight

Poet's Note: It speaks of a young teenager victimized by domestic abuse. She hid from her home, and was led astray by bad company. She got entangled with the affairs of the gangs, in the end killing herself when guilt finds her.

Lin I-Mai
3 Grace