Social Awareness Project Part 2: Two-Voice Poem

Bold- together

Italics- first person

Underlined- second person

I feel alone

At school, no one talks to me

At home, they’re never there

When I have to be with them

They laugh and call me names

They beat me till I’m numb

I only feel right

When I’m at home

When I’m at school

Then

I get to be with my family

I get to be with my friends

Still, they ask me what happened

“Why are you upset?”

“Where did your bruises come from?”

They expect me to talk

I say I’m just tired

I say I’m just clumsy

They believe me

I go

Home

To school

And it happens again

My two-voice poem is about two kids. One who's family beats him, but has good friends at school and one who gets bullied at school, but his family loves, and cares about him at home.  Both these boys have a hard time, and a difficult life, but one clearly has it worse than the other. This would be the first boy, who gets beat at home. When writing my poem I was really trying to compare the two, but at the same time not make one that much worse than the other, because there isn’t that big of a difference between the two. But at the same time, I really wanted there to be a clear difference, and it clear to see what is going on with who.

I picked to right about child abuse and bullying, because I think the two go hand, in hand, and I think that although one is worse than the other they are both bad. Also my subject during class was bullying, and the song I did for the first part of this social awareness project was about child abuse. Child abuse is a form of bullying; it is just a child being bullied by an adult, or someone who really should know better. When people think of bullying they think of bullying in school, not about child abuse, although like I said, they are the same thing.