Blame

For all of you who don't understand self-harm and suicide

let me paint you a picture

First I'll show you a girl who feels so alone in the world

She's overweight and every day

Somebody has something to say

Every time she does something wrong or bothersome

A hand stains her skin and makes her numb

When the insults fly

She shuts down

All emotion is gone

She feels dead

She feels dead

And not much later

Her nails are carving her skin

But can you blame her

when she's so desperate to feel something?

Next is a boy

Slammed into lockers and pushed around like a toy

He's called a "faggot" and a "homo"

And when his parents find out

He no longer has a home

He sits alone on the street

A bottle of pills at his feet

The side of his face is swollen

Can you blame him

When his future has been stolen?

Last I'll show you a girl

one I know all too well.

She was abandoned and adopted

By a mother that instead of love gave hospital visits

She starved herself because girls called her fat in jealous reason

Every boyfriend she had cheated

Except the one who took his life instead

She saw demons and shadows in the middle of the night

Everyone she loved would leave her

Until I came into sight

Her wrists would leak when she needed release

And twice she's tried

to end her life

But can you blame her

when every hope she gained

abandoned her when they saw her pain?

We lash out, attack, and abandon what we don't understand, what we fear, and what we don't care enough about to fix.

You put the blame on the children and not their tormentors

You say they choose the life they had when really, it's reverse

If for just one second

you accepted

you were brave

and you didn't just let them push you away

You could have saved a life

If for just one second

you offered unconditional love

you apologized for your insults

you didn't blame them

You could have saved a life

Can you blame her when she's so desperate to feel something?

Can you blame him when his future has been stolen?

Can you blame her when every hope she gained

abandoned her when they saw her pain?

Don't blame them.

Don't blame anyone else.

You take the blame and change yourself.