You say I’m a freak
For what reason do you have?
Because I refuse to conform to the foolish fads of society?
Is it because I listen to music
With actual depth to it, meaning?

Is it because my clothes don’t resemble yours?
Would it be a result of my lack of being superficial?
What about the fact that I stand out from the identical mass?
Is this what makes me a ‘freak’?

Or maybe it’s because I don’t lack my own opinion
My own thoughts
My original thoughts
Which is more than I can say for you

Is it because I can smile when others scold me
For things not involving them
That they know nothing about
But don’t have the common decency to admit it?
Is this why you claim me as a ‘freak’?

It is possibly because
I don’t act like an immature four year old?
Who cries when not getting their way?
When knowing
That their way is wrong?

Maybe its because
I have loyalty to my friends
I don’t put them down when they’re out of earshot

Maybe it’s because I am my own person
Unlike you
Is this why I am a ‘freak’?

People like you aren’t worthy of anything
But a slap across the face
You don’t know me
You don’t know my personality
And yet you gather when I’m not around
With your wannabe friends
And whisper about me
Things that you don’t know about
Don’t have enough brains to keep your nose out of my business
But every morning
You greet me with a fake, plastic smile
‘Hello! How are you?’
Like you actually care about me
And then I am gone
You turn to your friends
‘Isn’t she such a weirdo?’
I’m not like that
Is that why you call me a ‘freak’?

And you sit and listen through these words pouring from my mouth onto your
ears
I bet your thinking
‘What a waste
She is so stupid
This is a bunch of crap
What a freak”
But you don’t know
That you’ve proved my point
That you have glided past the meaning in these words
And focused on what you know
What you think you know
About me

So as you let this lesson fade away
And you return back to your life
Whispering thoughts
Secrets that don’t exist
I hope you have realized
The true unspoken words in this poem
Until now
That I’m not the freak in this world
You are.

 
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