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You Don't Know Me
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?

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This article has 4 comments.
Thanks to all of you guys!!! And I'm much happier now :)
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.
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!
