If there's laughter in the halls

It's at me

If there's crying in the halls

It's me

Don't judge what has already been overlooked

Another mistake

Another silly mistake

Like every red X on a paper

You bring me down a bit

And soon I'm the thing you wish you could erase

The big fat F on a report card

That got "mysteriously" covered in White-Out

When you got on the bus

I never knew you had to lose before you could win

And I never saw the backdrops behind me

Making my life look less empty

Because I try to tell you every day

I don't mind, I don't mind

But I do mind

And you knew it

And you thrived on it

And someday

When I have the chance to expell you to where I am now

I won't

That's a deal

Because no one should feel that pain

No one should be tortured

Even if they tortured others first

And while others might hurt you like you hurt me

I won't

Becuase I'm not like that

I don't want to hurt

I want to heal