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Outsider looking in
Do you ever feel like a bundle of energy
Never knowing where you are going
Always feeling like electricity is rifling through your veins
You are like a child , can't sit still, can't get what you want
You want to be a rock, always still, always on the same path
You wish you were like everyone else
Not special, not different, just a fish in the ocean full of them
Then you remember, if you are just a fish, you can never become the Coral Reef
You aren't like everybody else, you are different
You can't escape who you are
You learn to accept everything about you
Because without the electricity, you would be like everyone
A rock that never moves is just a paperweight
But you will become the paper that can't be tamed, always moving foward
Embrace the electricity, embrace the fear and differences
For all you know you are the next light
The thing everyone can't imagine life without, and makes everyone's life brighter
Now you know everything about what makes you who you are
You love the electricity and you will never be a paperweight
Then again, you remember, if you show your true self you will be ridiculed
People will be jealous, intimidated, and scared
You will stick out like a red sock along with all the white ones
In fear, you think that you can't show your true genius without losing everyone
So you decide to go on
Hidden, a wolf in sheep's clothing
Now you know you can't be the Coral Reef
Only a lonely fish, just trying to get rid of its hands and trade them in for fins
You will forever be an outsider looking in
So far away you are Pluto looking down on earth
No longer a planet, just isolated and cold
You see the warmth of Earth, but you know with a brain like this you will never actually feel it
Like a bird in water or a fish in a tree
You will never be one of them
You will be Pluto, no matter how much love, tragedy, and fear surrounds you
Forever unchanging
Considered an outcast and a loner to the very few who know you
No one will be truly let in
You have a shield that is impenetrable around you
Not even you can get in
So you go on knowing how special you could be
But the fear always creeps in
And the feeling that you are an outcast reminds you who you are
You are the 8th dwarf that was left out
You are Batman without Robin
Pluto once again, I’m alone drifting in space
I will forever be an outsider looking in
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When writing this article I just thought about how I feel every morning when I wake up and every night when I go to sleep. I usually feel isolated, but when writing poetry I feel connected.