Summary Of The Poem To This Day

In the poem “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan, he is talking about bullying and how people are affected by it. The people that are bullying don't even know what they are going through or how much it is hurting them. People wouldn't bully other people if they knew what they were going through the inside. The black and white tree branch symbolizes the kid. The brown tree symbolizes his new family that adopted him. The black and white tree symbolizes the boys real parents that died. Some people act like they are fine but they really are not because they are adopted like the guy that was adopted. The author choose trees because people have family trees and he is entering a new families tree.