All It Took

By Kashika Bharol -
A Motivational Bullying Poem By Kashika Bharol

When I was little and I had my two front teeth sticking out
And I was too young to get braces

Kids laughed and made fun of me
Said I was a beaver and a walrus and called me buck-toothed
Then by then, little by little,
I was bullied.
All it took was one little kid messin' around
To a whole group teasing.

I wasn't alone

Kids all around face this every day
The number
160,000 kids afraid
to go to school tomorrow
because of this meanness

And even more than that
Are not brave enough to tell anyone
Because they're afraid
Afraid of being titled as a tattle-tale, a snitch...
Anything else people were called in elementary school

School's for learning, growing, laughing, playing
Not for bullying, teasing, taunting, demeaning

But some don't get that

Sure, some fall, but they get back up.
The bullies won't stop
Not with one person
Not with two
But with three, four, five...
a big group

There's power in numbers
in standing up
and saying its wrong.

The bully thinks its okay
But its not.

Instead of:
All it took was one bully to create a menace...

People will say:
All it took was one person to get a group to stand up and be brave...


And they will be proud.

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