GhostSlayer

In the gym

Three others are with me

I say:

“I will try to touch the rim!” 

“Alright!” Shouts one of the kids with me

I am forever chained to technology.

Everyday I put on technology that will allow me to hear “normally.” 

I will always have to put something in my ear to hear at human standards.

I wonder every day:

Do you like me?

You look at me sometimes.

I wonder what it could mean.

I wonder if I feel to you what you feel to me.

Crying.

It’s something that all of us have done

At some point or another.

Yet it is a sign of weakness!?

And I say that is false.

FALSE

I say that it should be a sign of strength.

So

We are a group of people mostly under the age of 18 that according to the government might as well not exist.

We are underestimated by grown-ups

Because we have not been through all of school.

Almost every day I wear a hoodie.

To hide a part of me that I can’t escape.

It shrouds my difference from the world.

So that I can seem normal.

So I can fit in.

So that nobody can pick on me about it.