Abandonment

Carissa Erickson
Grade 10
Roseau Community School

Abandonment

The mere word seeming far from your vocabulary

The more you think that you don't care

The more it is tearing your last hope away

With each minute that goes by you feel even more forgotten

You try countless things to get it off your mind

Yet when no one remembers that you exist, what does it matter?

Your own needs seem irrelevant, the needs of tomorrow...

Lost on the hope that someone would make an effort to recognize

That your beating heart is even comparable to theirs

You're longing to stare into the eyes of someone who knows your soul,

and shares your pain

You want to feel the presence of anyone who would care as much to give you even a thought

Yet there is no way to do such without feeling vulnerable and pitied

So you remain isolated, with nothing but the desires of your soul, and your pain

with which only you can begin to understand

And you worry yourself into a heart-wrenching, nauseated sleep

While your hope for tomorrow remains the same as it was today:

That your life will not be forgotten or even worse; meaningless.