The poem follows two people, a girl and a boy, who are in deep emotional pain and can't get the help they need. The girl cries out and calls on her friends, but they brush her off, saying she only wants attention and should just stop being sad. She tries to, and she can't. The boy is different: he begs his mom in his head, hopes she'll listen and his dad will agree, but he never manages to tell them anything. One was ignored, the other stayed silent, and both ended up alone.
The tone is quiet, heavy, and desperate. The broken lines, especially "they wanted / no / needed," show someone correcting themselves mid-thought, as if wanting isn't strong enough for what's at stake. The final couplet is the most painful. It suggests the speaker wanted to die, and then asks why asking for help was so hard. The poem seems to say that people in pain often reach out in ways others miss, or can't reach out at all.