Contest Winner – Middle School

“I’m no good”

A poem by Eha Gupta

i

i’m no good at timing
i can’t do this silence
it’s breaking me away

i
i can’t even stop crying
but I know what my crime was
and now I have to pay

i
i always was lying
i never was trying
i hid under my pain

now i
i’m quietly sighing
‘cause I saw when my chance came
and I let it drift away