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:
- Army Headquarters by Rudyard Kipling
- Under The Round Tower by William Butler Yeats
- View From The Top Of Black Comb by William Wordsworth
- Николай Огарев – Прощанье с краем, откуда не уезжал
- Sonnet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan by Mike Yuan
- Handy Man by Shel Silverstein
- Иван Дмитриев – Сверчки
- Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos
- Despair
- Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Сердобольский – Птенчик
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Геращенко
- Stanzas To Miss Wylie poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key by William Shakespeare
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
- A New Broom by Witt Wittmann
- A Form Of Women by Robert Creely
- A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at New-Market in January, 1616 by William Drummond
- A Little Te Deum Of The Commonplace by John Oxenham
- Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
- I think it rains by Wole Soyinka
- Dedication From Moremi by Wole Soyinka
- As Like The Woman As You Can by William Ernest Henley
- A Thanksgiving by William Ernest Henley
- At Queensferry by William Ernest Henley
- A New Song to an Old Tune by William Ernest Henley
- A Love By The Sea by William Ernest Henley
- A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies by William Ernest Henley
- A Dainty Thing’s The Villanelle by William Ernest Henley
- Blithe Dreams Arise To Greet Us by William Ernest Henley
- Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley
- Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley
- Ballade Of Truisms by William Ernest Henley
- Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-Print by William Ernest Henley
- Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights by William Ernest Henley
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
