I am that puzzle piece on the table

The one you think you know

Exactly the place in which

You think I ought to go

But try and try you do,

Until to no avail,

You throw your hands up in despair and tell the scattered pieces

That they're the ones who failed

You think you've tried everything,

Every last place I could go,

You're frustrated and you're angry,

How could this be so?

Pick me up in your fingers,

Under the light so low,

Jam and shove and force me into

A spot and name yourself a hero.

But there's no way that I go there,

And behind your back the surrounding pieces

Begin to protest the spare

And ever-so-uncarefully push me out,

Rejection at its finest.

I become again alone on the table.

To rest there is the surest,

Better to be left alone

Than under the dictator of normalcy,

Judgment because I don't fit the mold,

Of what is thought I should be.

There are differences between you and me,

And on that we could agree.

But let me show you

They're okay,

I in no way need be changed.

To fit a world that to me is strange.

You would think it strange too,

To spend a day in this world through

People try and intervene,

But always have and will fail

So please for once just let me be,

The person inside who will prevail,

The person that I am meant to be,

This person can and will succeed.