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when you are different

December 24, 2018
By JunoJupiter PLATINUM, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania
JunoJupiter PLATINUM, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde


Sometimes I feel like a kid

who was left with all the adults

and I don’t belong there.

 

They only tolerate me when I’m quiet

like a child.

 

Unintelligible noise

is all they hear.

Unremarkable,

unrelateable

is all I am –

 

and if the biting in my belly

is not proof enough

of the pain of my predicament

 

and if when the air dropped out of my chest

I was not breathless,

wordless,

 

silent and waiting for someone who understood –

 

tell me what I was,

what I am.

 

Who I am?

 

please tell me that I can tell you anything



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