To the Parents: I Just Wanted You to Know

What have I done to betray thy trust?

Have I not smiled sincerely enough?

Have I not greeted you kindly and warmly?

Have I not been truthful with you?

Why would you make a friendship die out?

Because of one boy?

You see,

One boy, will come and go,

But friendship is there to help you see you through it,

But why would you make it break?

Do you know how hard it is to break a friendship after almost two years?

Don’t you understand that a bond was there and grew stronger as we grew older?

Do you not see the tears that poured down both faces?

Have you not seen the pain and hardships we’ve endured together?

The joy when one of us had good news?

That’s what builds a friendship.

Along with trust,

But why have you given me trust in the past,

But the sickening hate of backstabbing has forsaken me?

What chaste decision did you make?

When you once trusted me so,

But now a boy comes along,

And I’m no longer worthy of thy trust?

It hurts me so,

To see the pain my friend is in,

Because I know you yell,

I know you like me not,

I know you trust me not,

I know you ignore me,

Because of a boy,

Who doesn’t change me as a person at all?

Why am I being judged by the people I hang out?

When it’s me as a person who needs to be judged?

When you knew me,

For the person I was last year,

And still I am that person,

But just with a boyfriend,

It doesn’t change me,

I’m still the smiling, cheery person you knew,

Why am I being condemned to such fate?

When you trusted me,

And knew me?

Are you to be like the other families that have condemned me like that?

The one’s who said:

She’s too fat, she doesn’t smile enough, she’s a tomboy, and she’s too quiet?

Because if that is true,

Then you don’t really know my mind and soul,

Which lies within this body?

What does a boy change?

I’m not doing anything wrong,

I haven’t wronged you,

So why are you putting such harsh a rule,

On a teen who is your daughter’s friend,

Whom you’ve trusted,

Was glad that we had more classes together?

Why do you condemn me now,

And because of a boy,

Is not the reason,

Because I am a person,

I am not a reflection of him

But I am my own person

With my own feelings,

With my own set of morals, personal beliefs, religion, and many other things,

Judge me on those,

Because that’s what makes me:

Me.