The heartbreaking poem a 14yr old girl wrote before she killed herself


Izzy Dix (pictured above), a gifted pupil who had ambitions to go to Oxford
University, took her own life after complaining she could no longer cope with being
bullied, both at school and online.
‘Izzy would come home and sob in my arms" Her mother Gabbi said "They called
her “ugly”, “freak”, “frigid”. If she put her hands up in class, she’d be labelled a
“swot” and they’d snigger at her, or make crude comments. They’d exclude her
from events, tell her to go home, she wasn’t wanted. They’d turn their backs on
her, literally. When she did come home, it didn’t stop, because it doesn’t, these
days. They name-called her by text, then online. She’d log onto Facebook and get
abuse. Then onto that awful site Ask.fm and be subjected to filth."
14 yr old Izzy committed suicide on September 17th. Her mother explained what
happened that night
"When she came home from school that night, she seemed tired and a bit
cranky. We had words because I wanted to watch The Great British Bake Off
and she didn’t. But there was nothing to suggest she was going to do what
she did. I remember she painted her nails - she was so meticulous about
how she looked - then went up to her room and did her homework, had a
shower, got her bag ready for school, laid out her uniform. I popped in and
we had another chat about how the bullying was getting on top of her. It
was nothing we hadn’t done 100 times before, and I’d always give her the
talk about how she was stronger than the bullies.
‘Then I went downstairs while she got ready for bed. I had a cup of tea and
a cigarette — she hates me smoking so I did it outside. I was gone 15
minutes, tops. In that 15 minutes my life was destroyed.’
When she came back inside, Gabbi went back upstairs to see if Izzy was getting
into bed, but the bedroom door did not swing back as usual.
‘Something was blocking it, and it was Izzy,’ she says, and breaks down
completely.
Her description of the hours that followed is too awful to relate in detail, but she
managed to get her daughter’s body down and dial 999, then ran hysterically into
the street. Neighbours tried to revive Izzy while she ‘just took off’.
‘It’s all a blur. At one point I ran into a car. A police officer had to restrain me.
‘I remember him saying, “I am so sorry to have to do this” as he got me to the
ground.’
Not long before her suicide, Izzy wrote a heartbreaking poem about her ordeal. She
called it I Give Up. See it below