I am Bradley Chalkers:

I am emotionless and bitter

I’ve banished all my friends

I hear trash talk all about me at recess.

I’ve had enough!

I’ve had enough!

I’m lost in thought

Like the deep void of space

I cannot retrieve my feelings of love and care.

They were taken over long ago by hate and despair

I prepare to face my destiny.

I will not break!

I will not break!

I’m a dilapidated, eroded wreckage

Under the deep mist of the ocean

My soul is enemy territory!

I am alone!

I am alone!

The light will not shine through me

It won’t penetrate my heart.

No one can break me

I pretend to be a tiger when I’m only a cat

I’m out of range of the Cupid’s arrows of love.

I don’t care

I don’t care!

I’m an unwanted, ill-mannered introvert

I don’t fit in

I’m a miniscule tadpole in a sea of sharks.

By Kieran S and Christian H