Divergence

• Jack Shaw, Grade 10, Edmund Rice College
• Poetry
• 2014

Excellence Award in the 'Write As Rain 2014' competition

He is the outcast,
The abhorrent, the eccentric.
He has never been popular, cool or quotidian
But he has been the most intriguing of all,
He is like the mouse, caught up in a cluster of cats,
The fish out of water.
He ponders why not to be mundane,
When one can be anomalous,
He is a man who,
Provides the fresh spark to light the flame,
The one who has fun,
He dares to utter F---
He doesn’t follow the trend, he creates it
He isn’t the sheep ensuing the heard,
He creates the power of eccentricity.
He will traverse, He makes the diverse.