"PEER PRESSURE ALWAYS WINS"
by Allison Ray
A straight A student is what she once was,
always in class, doing extra credit just because.
She had always said no when her friends tried to
make her walk down the wrong path,
because she had dreams of winning a scholar in math.
She knew her self pride would keep her from wrong,
but that was until her first hit off a bong.
She started smoking weed, but she limited it to the weekends,
she looked at it as just a good time, hanging out with her friends.
But then it became harder to wait those five days,
so she would smoke a bowl before school, what happened to her old ways?
She would find herself at parties while she was suppose to be at school,
for she had to attend just to fit in, just to be cool.
Her mom had no idea her daughter was doing these awful things,
she just thought that her kid was great cause of the happiness she brings.
Then she was pressured to drink a beer,
and yes is what she said for she had no fear.
Drinking and smoking became a day by day routine,
it seemed if she waited any longer she started to fiend.
Still her mother hadn't a clue,
she had no idea of the stuff her daughter chose to do.
Pretty soon she couldn't even run ten feet without running out of breath,
maybe it was the weed, or beer, but then came crystal meth.
She would start to clean and wouldn't stop,
she made sure the house was spotless from bottom to top.
She even shaved her head because she thought her hair was full of dirt,
she just kept on going even though her body hurt.
She scrubbed her body so hard that her skin began to shred,
she started wigging out because she thought the bugs were covering her bed,
and that's when she lost it and shot herself in the head.
She never realied that doing all this wouldn't make her life fun,
and because she didn't, she took her life with a gun.
She's not here anymore to realize that life isn't always what it seems,
what happened to the straight A student,
shooting for the stars, chasing her dreams?
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