From my Left and Right

(poems go here) From one side I hear “I am nervous I wonder if they will talk to me I hear laughs of kids around me I see skin different than mine I am scared I pretend that they don’t bother me I feel like I don’t belong I touch my arms as I cross them because I don’t like this feeling I worry that they will pick on me I cry because I feel alone I am hated I understand that we are different I say that color shouldn’t matter I dream that they will like me I try to hide my feelings I hope that this isn’t just because of my skin color I am different, and they can see it” And from the other,   “I am upset I wonder if I’ll catch their disease I hear people telling me it’ll be ok I see black all around I am confused I pretend that I’m fine with it I feel like they shouldn’t be near me I touch my skirt to fix it to show I am better than them I worry that they’ll talk to me I cry because I shouldn’t have to deal with this I am above them I understand that we are not the same I say that they should leave I dream that things would go back to the way they were I try to ignore them I hope they don’t think they are equal to us now I am in a school that should have never changed” Cant they see we’re as different as the same can be?