All It Took
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...