WANTING...

To be like everyone else,

To laugh at the same jokes,

To walk down the same roads,

To feel the same sun.

Sadness...

I feel it as I realize I am not like them,

I am not popular,

I do not even fit their standards,

Some do not even know I exist.

Alone...

That is the only feeling I know,

As shadows embrace me,

And I watch others go by,

I wish life were different...but it's not.

Kimberly Davis

Wilson Middle School

Nominated by eighth grade teacher Dorothy Harris