Youth Poetry

If you walked a mile in my shoes you would understand what it's like to feel unloved, worthless, unimportant, a burden and being abused & bullied on top of that.
You would understand why I allowed my past to define me for so long...
Why I let my depression, anxiety and insecurities to control me....why I let people use me.
Why I kept it all on the inside and let it destroy me.
I finally understood that I wouldn't be the person I am today without my struggles and everything I've been through!
I WILL have a bright future!
instead of allowing my past to define me, I will use that as an advantage.
I will help people who have struggled and who have been where I once was...and give them the hope that I never had.
I will stand by them and be the person that I always needed....for them.
DSM AMP youth age 15