Christina Sookdeo Poet Free verse

I'M Okay, Nothing's Wrong

Are you okay?

Why does everyone ask that?
Just because I stick by myself 
Doesn’t mean I need some psychiatric help
I’m just a quiet girl
I don’t act wild or cool as everyone
I may look bored but I’m kind of fun
Do reading books and liking to be alone seem weird?
Well call me weird
It’s not like I care
I’m not broken up inside or suffering from dumbness
I’m just honest

What’s wrong?

Maybe the fact that everyone sees me as an outcast
Not in the good outcast way;
Yeah, life’s children’s play.
I put too much energy in these word frays
The world will never understand me
And I’ll never understand the world
I’m just an ordinary girl
But they can’t see that
Because they’re blind to cliques and styles and new flicks
I’m tired of this. I can’t stand it.

I’m okay, nothing’s wrong.

Really.
I’m just a little girl lost in her world
Life’s road is a really tiring maze
I think I’ll sit down and enjoy the view
Watch people trip over their feet and blame a stone
Laugh at the way people think of me as alone
Life is ridiculous when you’re not me.
When you don’t understand true beauty
I’m sober, alive
Loving life

So stop having diarrhoea in your mouths 
And stop spurting all this crap
Saying ‘she’s like this’ and ‘she’s like that’
I’m not a nerd or freak
Just because to you I hardly speak
So please let me be
I am who I am 
And that’s me.

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Esson Alumbugu December 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM Wow, how sincere! Most people think acting up and being noisy is cool. But greatness is best cultivated in quiet minds. Yes, nothing is wrong with you my dear.