Why are you looking at me, <br />Yeah, just like that? <br />(Don't you know this hurts?) <br /> <br />You're making me feel uncomfortable, <br />Can you turn away now? <br />(Don't you know that this still hurts?) <br /> <br />Why are you making fun of me, <br />Have I ever done anything to you? <br />(Why don't you stop hurting me this way too?) <br /> <br />Why is it that... that when I turn to you, it's not okay, <br />Yet then why is it that... that when you turn to me, it's okay? <br />(This hurts me too!) <br /> <br />I'm just like everybody else, <br />Okay, maybe just a bit different... <br />But how does that affect you, <br />In any way? <br />(And yet this still hurts) <br /> <br />They say that we're all different, <br />So why look at me like I'm from... another... <br />PLANET? ? ? <br />(Do you see how this hurts?) <br /> <br />Of course you don't know what's it like... <br />To be pushed around, <br />To be teased... just by the way that you stand... <br />Teased about how you dress, and how you walk... <br />Is it normal to have to walk with your head held upright, <br />Just to be sure that no one is going to hurt you from the side? <br /> <br />If this is normal to you, <br />Then it is not I, who is the problem, <br />IT'S YOU! ! !<br /><br />Mandy Howard<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/being-bullied/
