I am Humpty Dumpty

I am Humpty Dumpty, precariously perched on the wall of my life

I am Humpty Dumpty, slowly tumbling off

I am Humpty Dumpty, but what you don't know is that I've fallen too many times

you've only heard about the one that wrecked me '

but I've been falling and failing for years

this broken mass on the ground has been in the making for a decade

I have been breaking since the beginning

but this time there is no getting up

there's no band-aid to hold me together

but Humpty gets a chance when i don't

because there are no kings

there are no horses

there are no men

and there is no one trying to put me back together again.

I lay here in a heap of all i once was

self destructed

I used to be the girl that perched up high and smiled down on everyone

not because life was grand

but because life was a mess

and in a mess sometimes you need a smile

but I never got one

I sat on my wall and tumbled off

I laid in my depression and soaked up

I walked in my anxiety and freaked out

I played in my head and screamed loud

I--I screamed so loud nobody heard me

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Anastasia Hobbins is a high school student who has been writing poetry
since the fourth grade. Her style has morphed from rhyming to free
verse as her topics have grown to include the highs and lows of life.
She is involved in theater and debate and highly enjoys music,
writing, and photography in her free time. As well as, aiming to be
the female version of Spencer Reid, from Criminal Minds, with a bad
memory, average IQ, and way less PhD’s. She hopes to bless all with
bad puns and corny jokes, always wanting to bring a smile to
everyone's face.