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What did I do wrong?

June 21, 2021
By basicallymia BRONZE, Lincoln, Rhode Island
basicallymia BRONZE, Lincoln, Rhode Island
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Favorite Quote:
¨If you can´t be kind, be quiet.¨


What did I do wrong?

Is it because I have acne?

Am I ugly?

Do I smell bad and I don´t know it? *pop*

Am I not popular enough?

Or is it all of the above?


What did I do wrong?

How do I be cool like the ¨cool kids¨?

Do I have to copy their personality?

Do I have to copy their style?

Do I have to buy Airpods and the IPhone 12? *ring ring* 


What did I do wrong?

I just want to have my own personality

I just want to have my own style

But nobody wants to talk to me 

Or even stand next to me

I just want to be myself and be brave like my mother 

But if I try to be myself i´m scared to be judged

 

If I show them this poem they will laugh at it like a pack of hyenas

I wish one day there will be no ¨popular¨ or ¨unpopular kids¨

So everybody gets accepted for who they are

But Miss Hayter told me 

¨You will find friends who accept you no matter who you are and who you want to be¨

Who also relates to this?


The author's comments:

Students want to have many friends and it's hard for them if what we call the ¨cool/popular¨ kids or anybody in general judge them silently by giving them a dirty look, looking at them and laugh all of the sudden for some reason ect. I've have been givin´ dirty looks by the ¨cool/popular kids¨ before.  I have thought to myself ¨Do they think I'm ugly?¨, ¨How do I get clear skin like them?¨, ¨Is there something wrong with my style?¨ How do I be like them so I can feel like I have friends who care about me?¨ ect.  Lots of students think this and it's sad that we think something is wrong with ourselves and we start to feel insecure about ourselves at the point we think we need to change who we are, but we don't even want to be that person because it's not being ourselves, it also feels weird changing our whole identity feeling like we are wearing an uncomfortable halloween costume. Students are scared to say anything like this so I wrote it in poem form for me and for them.

I wrote this poem for a ELA Project, Every student liked this poem in my class.


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