Always Alone

I will always be alone

No matter how hard I try

Is it my fate then?

To . . . always be the outcast?

The loner?

The dreamer?

To . . . always stand alone and watch the others

Laugh and talk and play?

To be teased

To be beaten

Unmercilessly

Until the tears I try to hide finally escape?

And then

And then, they walk away laughing

Talking about the moron, the weakling, they say I am

Is that my fate then?

To always be alone?

I . . . have friends

Yet still, I don't fit in

I conclude I never will

How could a red-tailed hawk ever fit in with humans?

And so I sit down now

Alone, still, as I ever will

Resigned to my fate

Yet I will never give up hope

Still clinging on the very last shred

That perhaps, one day

I will never be alone

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