My back is bleeding From what they don't know Except that something in my intestines exploded I spent five days in the hospital With tubes up my a** and down my throat Ingesting chemicals that made me choke In I.C. I saw an infant ran over by a car Lying next to me is a boy they say is surely gonna die The teenage mother with asthma Runs up and down the hallway Waiting for her flake of a boyfriend to call While I lie in bed and bleed The screams of the girl With down syndrome and cancer Echo through my brain As I complain about the stench of my bleed Every attempt at friendship I've made with the boy with sickle cell Has fallen flat on my face But then again I'm just bleeding Why am I crying?