How Can You Know What Lies Inside?
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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
And I wondered why?
I never expected it to lead to that.
I should have.