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Fit In

by Jeanie_In_A_Bottle

We wear a mask

and run the race,

To shield the pain

and hide our face.

 

We bite our tongue

and laugh out loud,

To throw them off

and match the crowd.

 

We talk like them

and gain their rep,

To make them proud

and move a step.

 

We all cut up

and roll again,

To be accepted

and to fit in.

 
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I have been writing poetry since the end of seventh grade (7 years ago). My poem "Mother Earth" was entered into the A.R. Ammons Poetry Contest and was elected Honorable mention. After that, I went to a virtual workshop with the incredible Mrs. Jackie Shelton Greene, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, getting tips on my writing. I have written over 30 poems, some good, some bad, and some worse LOL. But, overall, poetry helps me to express myself and is just a beautiful way to deliver words.

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Kb2006
<p>Dear whomever this is,&nbsp;</p><p>Your poem is beautiful! i wrote one similar, it&#39;s called never shoot a mockingbird.</p><p>It&#39;s hard to fit it, expecially now. You either change to be a robot, or yourself</p><p>that choice seems simple to others, but not with kids theese days you have to be copies of each other to be seen as equal, or even accepted in the so called &quot;social crowd&quot;.</p><p>being yourself isint enough I feel like your poem really captured how life is theese days something needs to change! &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">We are all mockingbirds once were born.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Innocent &nbsp;and vulnerable.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">one mistake, one wrong turn&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">we become trapped In reality&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">the reality that we aren&#39;t perfect,&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Mistakes are made.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">It&#39;s okay.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">We are all mockingbirds once were born,</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">we get the chance,the choice, to chooose who we become.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">That&#39;s why mockingbirds are left untouched by our sunken world,</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">the only thing left...the only thing left to believe in.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">so when you see me, smile, touch the ones you love, just be.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">because our world is to unpredictable to let anything go by unsaid, un done.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">&nbsp;</p>

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