Different

A spoken word I wrote and was sitting here unpublished for months because I was always too afraid to post it, but Jamillet's spoken word gave me the confidence to :)

I look at people although they are fonts.

Each entirely different, each entirely the same. 

They are capable of posting the same letters

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

but they all look different.

they are just FOnTs. 

Every emotion coming out. 

every emotion coming out but in

different ways and different meanings and different thoughts and different words and different people.

You wouldn't know this about me but I am not a fan of the word differentbecauseIFiAMnotAfanOFtheWORDdifferentTHENdoes that make me

different?

if you stand in front of a mirror and say the word different over and over again

different

different

different

different

different

different

different

different

different

different

different

then it starts kind of sounding like mush, doesn't it?It sounds different than the normal word. 

because it is. 

it is DiFfErEnT. 

they tell us in school that it's okay to be different and that being different helps you change the rules and being different makes the world a better place because people love the idea of different but don't like different PEOPLE. 

WE WANT TO FIT IN, BUT SOCIETY DOESN'T ALLOW different PEOPLE TO JOIN THEIR RANKS AND BE THE SAME. 

i don't want to go to school, because there i am different and different gets you nowhere.

i don't want my children to go to school someday and scrutinized because they are different and i don't want my grandchildren to be put through that either. 

your parents tell you that it's okay to not fit in because you are unique, but it's not. 

maybe it was when they were in school but it's

not the same anymore. 

it's not until one of us commits

suicide

until you actually listen to what we have to say because

i said it before

i will say it again 

being different gets you either shoved in a corner and ignored or doomed to a life of solitude because no one really wants to be friends with someone who is 

different.

Author's Note

Thank you for reading :)

Reviews

[Karl Woof Junior]

enjoyed reading it..... can you write something about the pain of this opposition for another introvert like me

[The Analog Kid]

Well done. Using the fonts to represent people was brilliant. Nice job:)

[Phoenix]

well written

[Sami Khalil]

Very artistic...:)

[A. V. Madison]

Thank you, Sami.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...:)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

not usually a fan of this changing of font...but it fits so well with your idea...


so many different fonts, so many different kinds of people...but we are all human beings...and not matter what font...we are all writers in some way...and regardless of the font...we still type words...words are words, people are people....

we should look more for similarities in ourselves, than differences...maybe prejudice would wane ....

[Poetic Beauty]

this is a great piece written with emotion and a birds eye view into what it is like to be different. I hated high school because I was different but as an adult I love being different. I surround myself with people from many different walks of life who are strong and each one is unique. It gets better when you get older. Hang in there.

[zainul]

I love your piece.
It is completely different.
It sends completely different and meaningful message.
Best luck, talented poet :)

[A. V. Madison]

Thank you, Zainul, I am eternally grateful for your review.

[zainul]

You are welcome dear friend :)

[Sam Gregory]

This is fantastic! Very well written, quite complex in parts :) Very good work indeed

[PurpleQuartz]

Speechless...This was amazingly written. I personally have the belief that its okay to be different, because if everybody was the same then that would just be boring. Plus all my friends are crazily different and I couldn't (and wouldn't) imagine them any other way.
Great write : )

[Admiral Kirk]

I love people who are different. :D Also no one ever told me it was okay to be different. My parents always scrutinize my music and the way I dress and the way I talk. o.0 Which must be why I turned out so different! :D Lol this is really epic though. Nice. d: