Pre-teen Or Just Middle School

You ask me to stay the way I am

You ask me not to change to impress someone

You ask me ‘be yourself’

No wonder..I’m different and that’s why I’m an individual

You never told me I’m going to be alone in the crowd of “all perfect smiles and no complains” faces

You never told me I’ll be sitting alone on even lonelier staircases

You never told me they’ll ignore me as if I was never even there!

You should know they think I’m not like them

You should know they look at me like I was puked out of hell

You should know they ask me to solve their maths and science but they hate to acknowledge that

You should know they are pretty girls and brave boys

You should know they were born to shut me up and call me a nerd

You still ask me to move on

You still tell me ‘focus’

You still ask me to set higher goals in life

Like I don’t like my drama class but I can act so good everyday

That I’m so very fine

I’m hurt but not broken yet

I’ll live my life on my simple terms and not play blame games

I’ll walk each day head held high

I won’t stop to face this world Good or bad

I’ll keep remembering myself

‘No self-doubting’

Or

‘No self-hating’

I know

I am alone but not lonely inside!!