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:
- Living in my Bliss by Nina Gabriel
- Федор Сологуб – В лунном озарении
- Untitled XXI by Yunus Emre
- Владимир Высоцкий – О нашей встрече
- Иван Киуру – От северной половины земного шара
- I Want To Write by Margaret Walker
- Taking Off by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: The Rights Of Woman: An Occasional Address. Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night, November 26, 1792.
- Song—She’s Fair and Fause by Robert Burns
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Развалины
- Николай Языков – А. В. Тихвинскому (Как знать, куда моя дорога)
- Sonnet 02
- The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin by Rudyard Kipling
- Duns Scotus’s Oxford poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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
- Paradise Lost: Book 04 poem – John Milton poems
- Paradise Lost: Book 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Paradise Lost: Book 02 poem – John Milton poems
- Paradise Lost: Book 01 poem – John Milton poems
- On Time poem – John Milton poems
- On The University Carrier Who Sickn’d In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague poem – John Milton poems
- On the Same poem – John Milton poems
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 poem – John Milton poems
- On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament poem – John Milton poems
- On The Morning Of Christs Nativity poem – John Milton poems
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough poem – John Milton poems
- On Shakespear poem – John Milton poems
- On His Deceased Wife poem – John Milton poems
- On His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint poem – John Milton poems
- Lycidas poem – John Milton poems
- Light poem – John Milton poems
- L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems
- John Milton – John Milton Poems
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
