How does school make a teen who is struggling with dyslexia feel?

So often our teens are feeling broken by the school system, but explaining their situation is not always easy. So when 15 year old Corey expressed his hurt in this poem we felt that the world needed to hear what he had to say.

This heavy feeling inside me

My thoughts consumed by darkness

And there’s nothing to hear and nothing to say

The stuff you put me through is heartless

This poison is eating my soul

There’s only one place I can be me

All this pressure is taking its toll

Why can nobody see

This place is not my future

Nothing but a dictatorship, there is no escape

Six hours of daily torture

An academic community surrounded by red tape

Everyone thinks I’m okay

But I’m so sad inside

This feeling haunts me everyday

I want to runaway and hide

I always try to succeed

But every day you put me down

I don’t get the help I need

In this system I drown

So this is my final plea

This pattern has to stop

Are you so blind you cannot see

I just want a glimpse of the top