How Can You Know What Lies Inside?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 23:38 -- Balcil

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You call may them names,

      but

How can you know what lies inside?

How can you know the pain of another?

How can you know how close they are

To saying goodbye to it all?

Maybe thatsssss

why we don’t have a hoverboard

Maybe thatsssss

why we don’t have jet packs to fly us to school

Those who would have invented them, did not.

People like you told them,

they were worthless.

A geek, egghead, chicken, wimp, and dweeb.

And they listened.

They did the only thing they thought they could

and got rid of what they deemed

as worthless.

 

They could have cured cancer.

They could have ended our dependence on fossil fuels.

But, because we could not accept

the ones meant to save us,

because they were different,

we lost … everything … before it even started.

 

Genius is now another word for

nerd, punk, dork, weirdo, freak,

and different.

 

Think before you act.

Think before you say.

For how can you know what lies inside,

whether greatness, or despair,

or both.

 

I say this.

 

Yet,

        I have been a bystander.

        I have observed the verbal abuse.

        I have seen the pain,

                    I know too well.

Yet,

    I

             did

                 nothing,

 

I ALLOWED bullying

Just as the German people ALLOWED

        a tyrant to take over

and the discrimination and murder of many groups.

 

It is my fault, just as much as the bullies themselves.

 

I let people like you tell them,

they were worthless.

A geek, egghead, chicken, wimp, and dweeb.

And they listened.

They did the only thing they thought they could

and got rid of what they deemed

as worthless.

 

And I wondered why?

I never expected it to lead to that.

I should have.

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