Seeing Things The Way I Do

• Nancy Merlo, Grade 8, Domremy College
• Poetry
• 2001

2nd in the 'Believe It Or Not 2001' competition

They don’t know who I am,
They don’t even care,
For people to know what I’m like,
That would be very rare.

I don’t like to tell people,
What I feel inside,
People don’t see things the way I do,
They look on from the outside.

It’s almost as if I don’t matter,
When people do talk to me,
It’s just mindless chatter.

I don’t understand them,
And they don’t understand me,
I don’t really care though,
Because I’m going to be the person,
That I choose to be.