Poetry
Another Statistic
By Anna C.
- I don’t want to be another statistic
- Some suicidal teen
- Who makes a choice
- To kill herself
- When the world just seems too mean.
- Reality has fallen short
- And so have many of her dreams.
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- I don’t want to be another statistic
- Some pregnant little girl
- Who met this great guy
- And then gave sex a whirl.
- But it feels so right
- She thought
- They’d be together
- For more than one night.
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- I don’t want to be another statistic
- Some kid strung out on crack.
- He started at a party
- And now he can’t look back.
- First cigarettes and alcohol
- Now meth, crack and cocaine
- He’s been smoking it so long
- That now he’s gone insane.
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- I don’t want to be another statistic
- Some kid out of school.
- He thought it was dumb.
- He thought it was boring.
- He doesn’t have an education
- But lives on the street like a bum.
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- I don’t want to be another statistic
- Some girl left out in the rain.
- Who was walking home
- From school then raped and left in pain
- She can’t tell her parents
- And it hurt to tell her friends
- She doesn’t know what to do
- To make this nightmare end.
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- I don’t want to be another statistic
- Some stereotypical teen
- I’m gonna make a difference
- I’ll finish my dreams.
- I won’t end up pregnant
- On drugs or dead
- Because I’ll use my head.
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