TeenWork - Autumn 2007
Troubled Child
I am a troubled
child
I wonder if life and earth will get
better
I hear negatives and disruption
I see violence and foul
play
I want a better life
I am a troubled
child
I pretend to be a non-troubled child
when I am
I feel like an individual on the
inside
I touch the words that
are negative that I just want to crush
I worry that life will not ever get better
I cry out for help when I’m in trouble
and can’t help myself
I am a troubled
child
I understand life as it is given to me
but want to change it
I say hurtful things but I take
back every hurtful thing I say
I dream about life
getting good but as I awake it’s the same
I try to wish and hope to get
I hope to get the gift and opportunity
to a better life
I am a troubled child
- Akua Arkhurst, grade 7
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