BACK TO SCHOOL

 

I returned to school a stranger,
My friends had all moved on.
It was hard to find my feet again,
nothing seemed the same;
my mind still filled with images of horror
and memories of pain.

 

No one to hold my hand in games,
or pick me for their team.
I turned away from cries of "yuk,"
Pretended not to hear,
or care when people turned away
each time that I came near.

 

Just six years old and shunned,
I was rejected by my peers.
The teachers tried to comfort me,
saying it wasn't true;
but in my heart,
I knew that it was so;
and they did too.