Accepting Myself

It’s 2017

I don’t belong here.

This town is trapped in a white bubble.

I am trapped here

In this school

In this house

In my head

Everyone looks the same

Like there is only one way to be

One color. One language. One voice.

I don’t fit in

 

Why didn’t I get this biology question right on the first try?

Why am I not in all AP classes like everyone else?

I am stupid

I don’t deserve to be Indian

I don’t deserve anything

 

I want to leave. Go to some far away beautiful place where nobody knows my name.

And I will be free

Where I can learn who I am and start from scratch.

Where I am not a disappointment.

Where everyone looks different and lives in peace.

 

It’s 2018

So I go.

To a summer camp in the middle of Pennsylvania with people from around the country

Whose faces I have never seen before

Where nobody knows my name

I let myself get out of the cage which trapped me 

Use my voice

It was where they accepted me 

And for the first time I felt like I belonged somewhere

 

It's 2019

It's time to leave town 

and go to college

College is like an ocean and you have to teach yourself how to swim

You have to figure out how to navigate the world on your own 

But as I ovecome each challenge,

I am learning who I am

 

 

 

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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