ANTI-BULLYING PROJECT

BELOW IS THE POEM KENDALL WROTE AFTER A FELLOW STUDENT COMMITTED SUICIDE - (BY BURNING HIMSELF TO DEATH) - ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE HER DEATH.

A Poem By Kendall Wofford
February 2000

You make fun of people who don’t act, look… or see things as you do.
You have your own “click” - all of you are the same,
And you have the mendacity to look at our group,
And say we’re the ones who are “lame”?

You think you are better than us - because we aren’t rich like you,
Because our daddy didn’t buy us a car, and we don’t get the nice things you do?
When one of us walks by - you laugh and turn your head -
Guess you haven’t realized - people have hurt themselves for the things you’ve done or said.

Is your heart so bitter, so cold and so mean -
That you refuse to open your eyes and let the truth be seen?
Do you think we’re not real - that we feel no pain?
Just because…you and I …are not the same?

Do you want to know the truth… why we are not like you?
Why we don’t act, look… or dress, in the same way you do?
O.K. fine, I’ll tell you why -
Do you know how many friends ‘we’ have lost because they wanted to “die”?

Well, we don’t either - there’s been way too many to count.
But we know why, It’s because of people like you…
People who make fun of us, and the things that we do.
We can only take so much… until we give up and let go.
You treat us like we’re worthless, you make us feel so low.

Now, do you see why we don’t want to “be like you”?
Why we “couldn’t treat people.. The way that you do.
We know the pain that you cause…
We know the suffering… and the loss.

I am not sure if you have heard what I’ve said.
But - if you have - let it soak into your head.
Be nice to the people who are not like you -
Because, believe it or not, they have feelings too

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