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I wrote this poem because I was tired of all these things people want you to be, this image the world burns into our minds about how we should be, how we should look, turning us into robots. But I won't! Some people, some of them friends, say I am weird, and I think I like it. It proves to me, that I dare to be different.

The poem is about being different, and others seeing you as being nothing, cause you don't look or act, or care about the same things they do.

Nothing Girl

Maybe I wear baggies
and white socks with flip-flops,
maybe I don't like listening to rave
and I'm not on the social mountaintops,
maybe I don't care about the things
that make your worlds twirl,
maybe you look at me and think:
Gee, what a nothing girl.

Maybe I like giving smiles
which seems to be a sin today,
and maybe I allow my imagination
to sometimes run away,
maybe you don't understand this
and that's why you cannot see,
if this make me a nothing girl,
hey, that's ok with me!

The world makes you believe
your personality mustn't be detected,
your face must be picture perfect
and wear cloths just the best, to be accepted.
Maybe I look at you
and feel sorry that you're blind,
robots you have became,
yourself you'll never find.

God made you, as well as me,
this means I am something,
the world is a liar
and if I must be a nothing
for you to see it,
then so be it!

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Visitor Comments (from the Voting form)
Sea
you have very good skills of writing poems. I feel the same way because I have to bend over backwards just to fit in with the crowd.
Sonja
I think this poem was awesome. It really made me feel better about myself.
mayse
this is verey good
jess
thank god there is someone out there like me, i was starting to think that i was the only one! gr8 poems i loved it!
Angelique
I really liked the fact that some of the people there outside come up for us teenagers and I also just a few days ago wrote a poem about a guy that came onto me and when I read this poem I thought about mine and what impact it can have on others
Ashley
I love this poem it remindes me of myself all most i have friends who tease me for wat I like i guess they dont know that God didnt make us all the same he made us all different so this world can be exiteing. I also like this poem cause it went down deep so i won't feel stupid when my friend call me fta,retard,or a goth wanna be. so i give this poem a 9
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