24 Jan 00

 

 

When you were you

 

I did not realize

the beauty

of the honesty

that you did exude

ashamed as I was

at the difference

the world

saw in you

 

I was caught up in being a normal

that never would exist

longed to fit in

which I could not do

while associated with you

so I distanced myself

from the only one being true

 

Know when I look back

I admire and love you

wish I had been

just a little like you

wish the world could be like

when you were you

 

 

By

 

 

Everett E. Phillips, III