No one notices me
The boy in the corner.
No one ever does.
If only I had the guts to speak
My mind
In front of the others,
In front of her.
Her name flits through my mind
A name I will never call mine.
My absence is never noted
Never noticed until the last day
When they find me
In the courtyard
A rope around my neck
Hanging from the basketball net
Black ink mingling with red blood
Words I never decided to speak.
The horror on her face
Was enough to speak for thousands
As she saw her name enscribed upon my arm
The boy she never knew loved her
And the thick words upon my face,
I QUIT.