Am I just different?

What does it mean to be different? 
What does it mean to stand out, to not be like the rest?
 In this day and age what is different? 

Is different something that just catches your eye, 
like a hook to that song on the radio 
Or is it something else something deep down 
buried in a person. 
Am I different? 
And if I am different does that make you different too? 
And if that is the case
Does that make us all different 
And if we are all different 
Doesn't that just make us the same? 

And maybe I am different.
Maybe because of the way I was raised, 
Maybe because of my hobbies
Or maybe there is no reason at all
Because maybe deep down we are all different.

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meandpaul

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  • Poetry

    By meandpaul

    What is left

    [This is a reposted edited version of a previous poem of mine.]

     

    when all we have is spent–

    what will we have left?



    people once before us–

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  • Poetry

    By meandpaul

    down the street

    i walked down the street
    the streets i once used to know 
    filled with regrets and heavy with burdens 
    of what once happened here

    i walked down the street 
    a block or so down 

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  • Poetry

    By meandpaul

    Dear god, am I real?

    I believe in god even though I may know he doesn’t exist

    I know the mountains were not formed by him

    Instead it is the science in the world

    The reason we are here in this moment


     

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