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Problem Child
November 25, 2012
“She’s always too hyper” they say
“She is too antisocial” they claim
She escapes this reality to a place far away
A problem child is her given name
“Why can’t she be normal?” her parents ask
As though it is her fault she is shy and afraid
In this life she lives in a constant masque
Where everyone else is holding up the charade
Where she is free to be who she wants to be
Because who she truly is inside
Is someone unbound by criticism that lives in the kingdom of the free
She is the problem child who’s deserving of kindness you have denied
© Emma J., Tuck, GA
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