The Cost of Your Cruelty
The Cost of Your Cruelty
I want you to know what you did to me, Not the joke, not the laugh, not the mockery. Not the version you twist into something small. But the truth, the shadow that swallowed it all.
You embarrassed me till my skin felt too tight, Till mirrors became prisons, till day turned to night. You made me want to vanish, unseen, To crawl inside silence, erase what had been.
Your authority crushed the sound of my voice, You stood tall while I shrank, without any choice. Day after day, you trained me to hide, To bury my spirit, to kill it inside.
Your fists left bruises that faded away, But your words they linger, they still betray. They poisoned the lens through which I see, Mocked my existence, dismantled me.
You turned my pain into a circus show, And the crowd laughed loud they didn’t know. No one saw the nights replayed, The whispered lies that never decayed.
You made me feel worthless, smaller than dust, Like the world would be better without my trust. There were days I wished I could cease, Days I begged for silence, for peace.
But here’s the truth they don’t often tell: Bullying doesn’t end with the school bell. It follows you home, it sits on your chest, It whispers its venom, it robs you of rest.
So hear this clearly each shove, each word, Pushed me closer to edges blurred. I didn’t fall, but others do, And some don’t rise to start anew.
So if you think it’s “just a joke,” If you think it’s harmless, the pain you provoke, Know this: your cruelty leaves scars unseen, It kills the light, it shatters the dream.
Bullying doesn’t make you strong, It makes you dangerous, cruel, and wrong.
And to anyone who feels like me. Your silence is strength; your pain can be free. You are not invisible, not erased by the night, Your life is worth living, your soul worth the fight.
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