Different

Sick and tired of having to fit in,

Just want to be okay again,

I don't want to be another red rose in the garden,

I don't want to be another piece of metal for the fires of life to harden,

I just want to be me,

I just want to understand what it's like to be free,

So sick of the rat race,

I'm so sick of running in place,

Why does every body have to keep hating,

Why does everybody have to keep manipulating,

Everyone that wants to different,

Has to hide somewhere far away in a tent,

To escape the cruelty of some human beings,

Because humans can't stop seeing,

That different is bad,

So they make all the different people sad,

Well guess what,

If you got a problem with me being different keep your mouth shut,

Because I'm the white rose in the sea of red,

And I sleep on the wrong side of the bed,

I just wish that people could see,

It's okay to be who you want to be. 

Author's Note

It kinda sucks.... Sorry

Reviews

[Gee]

How are you so different? Without knowing this the above makes little or no sense,well,to me.

[RJ]

lol there's a lot of ways I'm different. It has to do with my past and right now my future. -Dead

[Davidgeo]

It is all the same with you, that is, BULLSHIT.... You cry about how hard it is to be 'different' then you close that very same poem with these words "If you got a problem with me being different keep your mouth shut"..... so, that makes you a complete and total hypocrite. You just want people to be nice to you, you're not different - you just think saying that will guilt people into being nice to you and pitying you.

Also, kid (I put you at 14 years old), don't say s**t like "rat race".... you've never held a job, you are a dependent of an adult, and I guarantee you ain't paying rent, raising kids, dealing with marital issues, or buying grocery's. So spare us with your hollow attempts at describing your "struggle"... ugh... nothing about you is genuine is it? You have no idea who you are do you? So lost you don't even really know how lost...

[Haze]

Wonderful. Captures the essence of many young adults and people. It tells the one needed truth: Difference is what makes one who he or she is. If someone is different they treat him like a virus. Instead every one should be trying to find what sets the apart from the rest. Really beautiful.

[Scheherazade]

It doesn't suck! There's some lovely images and language here, powerful passion and emotion that comes through. There are some lines that seem to run on a little long but it's good enough that I don't think that really matters. It's relatable and I'm sure a comfort for all those misfits out there who have never felt like they really fit in (like me). Never be so dismissive of your own talents. It's important to always work hard to improve and be better but you can only do that if you have the faith in yourself that you have it in you to be a talented writer.

[cimmy wuv xxxooo]

Sucks... you think this sucks???? really?
Let me tell you to wake up and relise you are an amazing writer, I'm shocked this only has one review.
I'm in love with your poetry.
This was my fav so far, I love how you address being different as like being a white rose amongst all red ones, was a cleaver way to put it.
I really related to this, I am such a unique and different person, some people love that, but allot judge and hate it, and look at you weirdly.
I use to get picked on allot and I know people can be so cruel, and sometimes people suck.
I adore the rhyme scheme was even better then the others.
This truly moved me. Love it. saving it to favourites :)

[Dead]

I uh thanks. That means a lot.

[cimmy wuv xxxooo]

your welcome :)

[Blackheart]

No. It does not sucks at all. Very much beautifully written and so much poetic. I love this!

[Dead]

Wait really?

[Blackheart]

Yes! This is pure gold. Just one thing though change hatin to hating and manipulatin to manipulating.