Page 38 - Fallen Thoughts

You say you’re afraid,
People will isolate me

For being myself.

Those fears are founded.
You have proven that to me,
That the world is cruel.

I have a target,
Labelling me as diff’rent,

Posted on my back.

Maybe I’m the one
Who put it there, but for some
Reason, I had faith,

That the world couldn’t
Be as bad as my worst fears,
But I was so wrong.

I needn’t go out
Into the world to feel hate
Others have for me.

You have shown me this,
You want me to assimilate,
But I can’t, and won’t.

I’ll make my own home,

With people who accept me,
And I’ll be happy.

~I will