Birds Eye View is proud to present our award winners for 2013:
1st Place
Anaelle Audant
Poem:
Break Through
2nd Place
Melinda Delimon
Short Story:
Small Bump
3rd Place
Aurelie Baptiste
Short Story:
Redeeming Love
&
Natasha Van Dam
Sketch:
Ballerina
First Place winner:
Break Through
You should stay asleep because waking up won’t help
The nightmares that you have are better than the reality that you live
Your fantasy world can’t even console you, but even the earth would rather throw you up
Your flesh sticks onto your bones because you don’t know what to do with yourself anymore
Your eyes sink into their sockets because there is nothing worth seeing anymore
Your own heart has fought against you
How can you love yourself then?
You can try to get all the help you need, but even those who want to don’t want to heal YOU
Don’t you understand?
You are an epidemic
An outbreak of cholera
No one wants you to stay, but you have nowhere to go
The bruises on your arm no one but yourself is to blame
Sorry if you can’t find yourself, sorry if you can’t love yourself
You are a disease
Dig your grave and bury yourself six feet under
Aren’t you sick of this torture?
End it.
How many times have you been to the doctors?
How many times have you had therapy?
Every tornado comes to an end,
So why do you keep on spinning around in circles and destroying yourself?
You can’t get help
You won’t be healed
Don’t you get it?
No one needs you around
And the scars that you keep up
The hair that you don’t even bother to cut
Aren’t you sick of your rotting body?
Kill it.
But you’re still here
After it all, you haven’t left
You didn’t bury the memories
You looked up and saw something through those sullen eyes
The deep dark circles predicted something
They kept the heart inside of you alive
All of those harmful words
All the blood on your favorite knife
If you can stick around this long,
If you can keep walking for all this time,
Why pay attention to the words?
Fight them.