Thank you

It's 2am and I'm all alone in the silence of my room

I know this will never be my home. It's more like living in a tomb

So I close my eyes, cross hands on my belly and just lay in my bed

Try not to think and attempt to ignore the voices echoing in my head

„Time flies, my dear. You know you shouldn't be laying here!“

Frozen.

„You know you've still got a lot to do. Just show everyone that they can believe in you!“

Still frozen.

„Let's be honest, sweetheart. We both know you're not that smart.

And we both know that there's no way that you'll ever be“

Melting.

With tears in my eyes I try my best not to agree.

The mix of anger, frustration and despair slowly taints my heart

When I suddenly hear a quite voice with words not this tart

“It's okay if you fail. Everybody fails sometimes. But it's unacceptable to not even try.”

In this moment relieve makes me cry.

I haven't heard that voice in a long time

And I never thought it might cross my mind

The voice belongs to a middle school teacher I once had

He showed me that I'm just thinking I would be that bad

So I stood up and I've just done all the work that was left to do

and now that I'm finished I wrote a poem to say thank you.

Author's Note

As always I would be happy if you could correct my mistakes.
This poem might not be thaaat good but anyways: True Story! (: