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Narrative Poem
Logan Larrimore
Ms. McKoy
English II
October 3, 2013
Who am I?
Does anyone want me?
NEGLECT
I FEEL neglect
I am NEGLECT...NEGLECTED
By who?
Everyone
No one likes me
No one wants me
Not even my parents want me or
love me, all they do is……...ABUSE me
I am only 14
Why me? What did I ever do?
I don’t deserve this...no one
does
Where is my way out of the
misery?
The misery of NEGLECT
Is there something that can make
me feel wanted?
Or maybe even someone who will
make me feel wanted?
But no...no one likes me...
DRUGS? Is that the answer?
This has got to be the way? There’s
only one way to see….. try it?
It makes me feel something, a
feeling like no other
Something I've never felt
before…….. ACCEPTANCE!
But is this the only way?
I need someone, a friend, someone
to BOND with, someone to TALK to,
Someone who will LISTEN to me,
SUPPORT me, HELP me!
Drugs is my only FRIEND, the only
thing that accepts me for……………..me,
The only thing that loves me as
much as i love it
We have become very close, almost
as if we were best friends, If only it were a person
Maybe drugs is a trend for me
It sets me FREE from all the
MISERY
NEGLECT is a pain,
That comes with huge gain
My drug USE turns to drug ABUSE
Do all teens do this or is it
just me?
I can't be the only one
If only I could find someone like
me
A FRIEND, a friend to bond with
me, talk to me, listen to me, support me, help me
We can fight the drug abuse
problem TOGETHER
We won’t stand alone in our
decisions
We support each other, we help
each other
Teens and drugs seem to fit
perfectly together
But there is always a way out
DRUGS?
Drugs is NOT the way out
There is HELP for EVERYONE
Never doubt a friend, There the
BEST kind of help
FRIENDS DO MATTER!
LEND A HAND TO A TEEN DRUG ABUSER...YOU
NEVER KNOW THEIR STORY!
Exploratory Essay
Logan Larrimore
English
II
Ms. McKoy
September 4, 2013
Being
a friend can help a teen drug abuser
Teen drug abuse is becoming a bigger problem each day.
Almost every day a new teen is offered drugs or witnessed some type of drug
abuse. Some reasons teens go to drugs is because they have a family history of
drug abuse peer pressure or belief that it’s okay to do it, but the main reason
a teen turns to the low extent of drug abuse is some kind of neglect or low
self-esteem whether or not it’s social neglect or family neglect. One way we
can help prevent teens from turning to drugs is by being a friend and accepting
all kinds. Be a friend and help them, try to pick them up when they are down,
and most of all be their main support system in all situations. People may
disagree with my belief that we should lend a hand and help prevent teen drug
abuse so my question is… Should teens help prevent teen drug abuse by being a
friend to them? I believe that they should because the teens that are abusing
drugs today is going to affect our future.
Some people would say that by just being a friend to
someone isn’t going to make them stop doing drugs. I can see were there coming
from but sometimes being a friend is all that someone needs to comfort them
through the hardships in life. Also by being a friend to a person who feels
unwanted and that gets neglected by others can always help. When a teen or a person
in general feels that people don’t want them around or accept them, they will
do things such as drugs to either fit in with the others or just do it to try
and escape the pain for neglect. The author states in the article “Drugs is a
substance that enters the body as something harmful and it goes and messes with
the brain so that you can’t think straight. It messes with the chemical
imbalance in the brain, and messes up the state of mind you’re and practically puts
you in another world.” When you have a
close friend to talk to it can change everything because you can tell them your
problems and show their emotions instead of hiding them and letting it build
up. By having a friend you can reveal your pain to, instead of drugs, is
sometimes all it takes
When thinking about this topic it is a very serious
situation and should be discussed thoroughly. The teens doing drugs today are
going to be the thieves and rapist of the future if we don’t try and stop the
matter now. We don’t stop to think about
what the outcome of neglect and bulling could lead to while it’s
happening. The world we live in today is
already bad enough so why should we go and try to make it any worse for the
future. That’s why I think we should all try to help prevent teen drug abuse by
being a friend to someone else. We all need to stop and lend a hand to a teen
drug abuser and reach out to help them.
Promises
Treatment Centers. “How to help your teen avoid drugs”. 2013. Web. 4 September
2013. http://www.promises.com/articles/teens/how-to-help-your-teen-avoid-drugs/>.
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