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You Don't Know Me

August 15, 2010
By kimpossiblebyday GOLD, South San Francisco, California
kimpossiblebyday GOLD, South San Francisco, California
12 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I began to view the world at large through borrowed eyes more like those I wanted to own: hopeful." -Ellen Hopkins


You don't know me.

Telling me how I'm ugly.

How I'm secretly a guy.

How I'm lame.

You can't handle me.

Every time I upload a photo to Facebook,

You tell me how I think I'm so cool

And full of myself.

You don't know what I title the
photos on my computer.

Hideous, Ugly, Freak.



You think I put up more pictures because I love the way I look.

It's because I'm trying to find one I like.



You think I like meeting new people because I want to be popular.

It's because I'm looking for someone to talk to when I'm having a bad day.

Someone who will complement me, not someone like you,

to tell me everything that's wrong.



I'm constantly hearing, "You think you're so cool."

"Pretty," , "Awesome," , "Popular."

Would you believe that I've never thought that?



People come to me with their problems.

When I have serious issues,

Who should I go to?

Who will text back?



It's funny how friends I've had for more than 5 years,

won't be there for me when I have a bad day.



I don't cry.

I laugh.

I don't complain.

I thank.



If this is just showing off,

Then why does it sound so much like a cry for help?


The author's comments:
To all the people who think they're alone: You're not. No matter how closed the world may seem, it's always willing to open for someone as special as you.

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on Sep. 4 2010 at 10:23 pm
kimpossiblebyday GOLD, South San Francisco, California
12 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I began to view the world at large through borrowed eyes more like those I wanted to own: hopeful." -Ellen Hopkins

Thanks to all of you guys!!! And I'm much happier now :)


on Sep. 4 2010 at 7:07 pm
IamtheshyStargirl PLATINUM, Lothlorien, Utah
44 articles 16 photos 2206 comments

Favorite Quote:
Boredom instigates extreme creativity. <br /> ~Amoniel<br /> <br /> "Bowing gratefully to all of my subjects, 'thank you. Thank you. The pleasure is mine." Nah, I'm just kidding. We're all kings together.'" <br /> ~Thesilentraven

Poingant....

on Aug. 21 2010 at 10:35 am
SecretNonConformist SILVER, Marblehead, Massachusetts
6 articles 0 photos 195 comments

Favorite Quote:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of<br /> evil is for good men to do nothing.&quot; <br /> -Edmund Burke<br /> <br /> &quot;Bless the children, give them triumph, now!&quot;<br /> Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

I was in a very similar situation but then I changed schools. Now I have an almost entirely new set of much better friends.

I hope you're doing ok! Keep looking for real friends. You will find them.


on Aug. 19 2010 at 10:50 pm
loveisblind GOLD, Tenino, Washington
10 articles 0 photos 71 comments

Favorite Quote:
This world, it ends as you believe it to end; yet it&#039;ll live on to the actuall end, where then you admit yourself wrong.<br /> <br /> <br /> ~Me~

I know how you feel; my "best" friend once said those type of things when we were younger.

Then she got held back and now I only see her in the halls, hardly saying hi :)

Good piece, btw; I luv it!