by Alexandra Gross
Do you know what it’s like
To be different? To never
Feel quite right with people?
To be in a crowd and yet utterly
Alone? To wish for someone
Who understands you completely,
And come to the realisation that
No such person exists?
I do.
Do you know what it’s likeTo be a freak? To have
Everyone who sees you either
Pity you, or hate you? To receive
Funny looks every day, every hour?
To have people question everything
You say or do?
I do.
Do you know what it’s like
To be unwanted? To know
That you don’t belong anywhere?
To know that you’re nobody’s favourite,
Nobody’s best friend?
To know that, when you’re with a person,
There’s always someone he or she would
Rather be with?
I do.
Do you know what it’s like to be normal?
To be in constant worry that someone
Won’t approve of what you do, or say?
To always need the right clothes, or
The right music on the right iPod?
To never know your real friend
From that person who just wants to
Have the social status of hanging out with
Somebody normal?
I don’t.And I sure as hell never want to find out.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2012 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- Огюст Барбье – Кола ди Риенци
- A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning
- Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary by Robert Burns
- As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow by Thomas Moore
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Memorial Day For The War Dead by Yehuda Amichai
- Betrayal poem – Alice Notley
- Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank by Robert Burns
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Н. Ф. Щербине
- The Emigrant by Ndue Ukaj
- Immortal Indian Legend by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- The Woods At Night by May Swenson
- Владимир Корнилов – Военный оркестр
- Hound Voice by William Butler Yeats
- September by Ted Hughes
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Look not in my eyes, for fear poem – A. E. Housman
- Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
- Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
- It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers poem – A. E. Housman
- Into My Heart an Air that Kills poem – A. E. Housman
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
- If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
- Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman
- From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
- From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
