Hate is all you feel for me

                I see it in your eyes

                I try to make it better,

                But somehow you tear all I’ve built up away

                I try again, but the walls of hate are too high

                What did I do to deserve

                This undying loathing

                Perhaps it was me trying to be me

                And step out of the track your life followed

                The group all laughs, it’s funny to them

                And I laugh along too

                But inside I’m screaming

                With pain and sadness;

                And a thousand other things

                But I smile on the outside  

                You scream, you yell, you hit

                What did I do wrong

                You tell me I don’t stand up straight

                Maybe I’m trying to make myself small, to hide

                From the unwavering hate I feel from you

                At every moment I’m around

                No one else sees the pain I feel

                Do they choose not to?

                I chase my mind in circles

                Trying to find the reason for such hate

                All I come up with is you simply despise me

                No matter what I try to do

                All of the grades are for you

                But you just don’t care

                I try so hard to get a word of love

                A smile of encouragement, a word of praise

                All I get is the bitterness of hate

                The tears that fall when I’m alone

                Are not from your biting criticism

                They’re from the pain of failure

                As I break myself against your wall of hate