Careless Actions Poem by Lizzy Scott

Complicated teenagers
Overreading crushes actions…
Falling away from certain friends,
And gaining more in a seconds fraction…

Crying over breakup letters
Sent through text message…
The animosity of it all
Is as shallow as can be…

The world is ending,
The dance I’m not attending,
He’s fallen for the captain
Of the cheerleading squad.

Face to face with depression,
This is the reaction
From her going home with someone
From the party last night…

Best friends falling further away,
An abyss is left to ponder…
They aren’t the same person I knew…
And this I’m left to wonder…

An accident on the freeway,
A girl lost her life…
Alcohol was clutched in the hand of the man
That was driving her home that night…

They don’t notice as she cuts her food into tiny pieces,
Or the running water in the bathroom as she gives up her meal…
Slowly killing herself, standing on the cliff
Of anorexia and a life that is real…

Going to afterparties,
Taking sugar cubes by the dozen…
Overdosing on LSD,
Reality slipping through his delusional hands…

Detached from the world,
Addicted to these needles…
Looking for an outlet,
Longing to clean up…

Invited by a friend to a private party…
Open bar, wide mouth alcohol,
Unknowing of the slipped in roofie,
Or the date rape happening later that night…

Secretly abused by her uncle
So many nights,
Only later will he realize…
It will haunt her the rest of her life…

Scattered thoughts,
Torn up lives,
Drugs, alcohol, and abuse
Is what we live with day by day…

Open your eyes,
See the struggles from careless actions…
The things that will plague them for the rest of their lives,
And the struggles they go through day by day…

This is them, the unwanted,
The unloved, the abused,
Addicts, and abusers…

Will you do something to help these people,
Will you do something to show them….
That someone out there cares…