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Circle in a sea of squares

October 25, 2010
By palmtree_128 BRONZE, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Other
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why they call it the present.

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I’m sorry that I upset you
For not fitting in that square shaped box
Because my personality is a circle
That doesn’t mix with the other ones

Others gawk
When I walk down the hall
But how could I care
When I was just being myself?

Even when I try
To have the corners of a square
Wear the clothes that everyone else wears
I laugh too much
Lie not often enough
To be like the others
You want me to be a part of

They may point, they may laugh
But all I’ll do is smile back
Because I’m just being myself
In the sea of squares
where I’m the only dot

© Martha V., Morton Grove, IL

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