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Walk My Own Path

June 9, 2022
By Anonymous

I´m not you

I will never be like you

I don't want to be like you

I will walk how I walk

Talk like I talk

I will be who I am

And don't you treat me differently

I'm unique 

I´m free

I'm not tearing myself apart in order to be perfect

I will not assign myself rules to be liked more

I will not tell myself what to do and to not do in order to be popular

Like many of you do

You destroy yourselves

You would do anything to be beautiful

You would do anything to be popular

You would starve yourselves to be thin

It's frightening really

What your willing to do in order to be popular

So let me be

Don't drag me down that path

Don't make me like you

If you hate me then hate me

I´m not following your rules

I'm not changing myself just because you don't like how I am

I like how I am

And that's enough for me

You can all walk down that path

And I will walk down the other one

And I will keep being me

Because I am happy with who I am

And I will walk down my own path


The author's comments:

I have been bullied relentlessly for being different. For being "weird". It was hard to push through the bullying, but those experiences inspired me to write this poem. I hope that this poem inspires someone to be themselves no matter the cost. Be who you are, don't change yourself to be more like everyone else. You would just be giving in to the bullies.


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