How do we know?
By:Caitlyn Vasquez

Fake hair
Transparent smile
Perky personality
Long chuckle
Mellow silence
How do we know?

Sitting on a scream
Whispering her troubles
Talking sweetly
Seeing everything colorless
and lopsided
devoured by corruption
and trouble.
How do we know?

They need to talk
They need to yell
but they lack courage
or even a heart.
They express their pain
in obnoxious ways,
waiting for someone to say
"are you okay?"
But they don't answer,
sitting on the muffled screams.
But how do we know?

Finally when it's too late,
we care  too late,
We notice what we've done,
but can't take anything back.
We now sit on muffled screams,
but how do they know?