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Don't Define Me

October 29, 2010
By Anonymous

She’s superior she’s snooty,
She’s supercilious she’s stuck-up.
She’s patronizing she’s condescending,
And we really really hate her.

If we run into her at malls,
She won’t even say hi.
At parties she won’t mingle,
Beyond her group of friends or people who she likes.

I know they think I’m snobbish
What they don’t know is I’m shy.
And when they talk to me,
I don’t have the confidence,
To look them in the eye.

I know they think I don’t mingle
But the truth is I’m afraid,
Afraid of being rejected,
Afraid of being detested.

I wish they could see past my silence,
They’d see a different me,
Not a girl who patronizes,
But one who only wants to be -
Wants to be accepted,
Wants to be loved,
Wants to have the courage,
To look you in the eye when you talk,
Wants to grow past her shyness,
A girl who just wants to belong.


The author's comments:
i think that very often people form a judgement on someone on the basis of what they percieve in their first impression and sometimes they may even wrongly percieve shy people as stuck-up and soon come to define them in this way and treat them in an unfriendly manner and through this poem i'm trying to get this message across that sometimes people are not what they appear to be and we should give every one a chance in life.

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