BY: Layna Buskirk, Ionia High School He is your cup of tea The perfect mixture of milk and black coffee He is so tender and sweet A breath of air for starving lungs Compared to the others. But he loves you He is so tender and sweet He is a breath of fresh air Compared to the others They are all dead to me He is your favorite candy That mix of salty and sweet He's the first boy to meet your family Everyone says he treats you so sweet He is your everything People start to notice Don't let them see he whispers as you drift off to sleep you wince when he moves you cry because you're starving Your ribs are showing The bags under your eyes Are permanent shadows of every time you lied To protect someone who only causes destruction But he is your world Or so it seems You're in the ER and don't know how or why Your parents say he beats you But you tell them thats a lie He loves me you whisper For your voice is to hoarse He is gone none Completely out of sight But he held such love in his eyes He prized me He would never hurt me But he did. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: I have a long story and I tell it through poetry. Layna Buskirk is a sophomore at Ionia High School and a member of the editorial team at MIteen Writers.
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Kate
3/23/2017 11:12:37 am
I love this and how you portrayed that people can be blind to abusive relationships.
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