She saved me.
I was on a path to Hell,
A path to being a drop-out,
A path to getting knocked up,
A path to getting hurt,
And hurting everyone around me.
Everyone knew,
Even my mother.
I was bad,
I was lost.
I was roaming around,
Incapable of seeing the truth.
I was young,
I didn’t know,
And then,
Yet I did.
She saw me,
She saw what was in me.
I didn’t care at first,
She was just another teacher,
Just one more person to hurt me,
Just one more person to make me feel incompetent.
Just another person to bring me to my knees,
And make me suffer.
Back then,
It seemed as if everyone was out to get me.
I was dying inside,
When she finally woke me up.
I’d given up on myself,
On who I was,
But she made me see the real person inside.
She showed me how to let go,
To be okay with who I am,
To cope with who I was.
She shook my nerves,
Until I couldn't hold it all in anymore.
She brought me to my knees in the pain of the truth,
And a new person was to rise from my fallen place.
A person who finally believes,
A person who finally cares,
A person that is going to be somebody.
All because of one teacher.
The teacher,
That proved a stubborn girl wrong,
The one that picked a loose,
Hateful girl,
With a lost soul,
Up from her knees and showed her what was inside,
The one that burned my bridge to Hell,
The teacher that saved me.
Stephanie Necessary.