Just because I am; Poem  

By: Saaniah Hardy

Just because I am quiet.  
Doesn’t mean I am not rambunctious,
Doesn’t mean I am not friendly,
Doesn’t mean I am always silent. 

Just because I am a horrible-voiced girl. 
Doesn’t mean I can change it,
Doesn’t mean I don’t have anything good to say,
Doesn’t mean I’ll change myself for them. 

Just because I am amiable.
Doesn’t mean I am nice,
Doesn’t mean I say everything I think, 
Doesn’t mean I am kind.

  

Just because I am happy.  
Doesn’t mean I am happy inside, 
Doesn’t mean I am sweet,
Doesn’t mean I GET over hard incidents, 
Doesn’t mean I can move on.

  

Just because I am ugly. 
Doesn’t mean I have an ugly inside, 
Doesn’t mean I LIKE your judgment,  
Doesn’t mean I THROW away your judgment. 

 

Just because I am strong enough to handle pain.
Doesn’t mean I deserve it,
Doesn’t mean I enjoy the hardship. 

STOP judging me.
I still feel afflicted, 
I am not aggressive but aggrieved,
I care if you are ambivalent towards me. 

I apologize for making your lives worse but what about mine? Do you care about mine? Do you care about what YOU do to other people? Well, I wish I had amnesia to get all this hate out of my mind forever.