By: Kate V.

2nd · Middle School Writing (2019)

A thousand voices echoed through her mind.
“You are not right”
“You are not enough”
“You are not worthy”

As reluctant as she was, she could not ignore them.
“I am not right”
“I am not enough”
“I am not worthy”

She wanted to push these thoughts down until they turned to dust.
But she couldn’t push hard enough,
Without help from someone
But who?

She swallowed a pill
An antidepressant
“I might wake up feeling different,
But I guess that that’s the point”

Is there a chemical imbalance in my brain?
Or am I just sad?
Am I emotionally scarred?
Or am I just sad?

It does not matter now.
This is how it ends.
The last thing I remember was the burning feeling.
And then I was in a hospital bed.

That was not the ending.
I have people to keep me from getting lonely
I have activities to keep my mind together
I have a new faith in Christ

There are now echoes of a thousand new voices
“You are right”
“You are enough”
“You are worthy”