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Echo Fall 2016
I’m not the only one who grew up like this. I've been in that dark, lifeless corner. I have been lifted from that corner by those helping hands.
But some hands were wrinkled,
Damaged by deception. They lifted me out, helped me stand, Only to push me down.
To this day, kids are still getting called names But they are not just names, they are false titles. Stupid, loser, dumb, ugly, nerdy, weak, Names I would not dare to put down on paper. These are my false titles.
We’re young, we’re fools. We cannot look into the future at what these scars inflict. A child who could become one of the most important people in America, will lie there, broken.
The Humpty Dumpty of society, with no one these to fix them, No one to care for them. This is what I aim to fix.
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Anne Riley Burcaw
