"Please, Help Me."

"Please, Help Me." - Hayley Rae Shaffer (La Costa Canyon High School, Eleventh Grade)

Mental illnesses will not have the capabilities 

Of discretely destroying the lives of sufferers 

When humans can immediately sense 

The shameful demons which chronically ruminate within

Desperately leaving subtle hints to those around

Which illnesses permit are allowed

A safer way of combating incessant voices 

Yet, go overlooked everyday

Through humans natural tendencies of self-absorption

In a world where mental illnesses are immediately sensed 

Inadvertent pleas will be immediately read

When sufferers lips are stitched together with shame

Recipients will be able to sense their anguished screams within