<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486354" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Being Original</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BEING ORIGINAL</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course no one wants to be a fake<br> A copycat<br>Not that one has no mind of his own<br>A perspective<br>Or a way of seeing things the way one sees<br>Oneself<br>Or the other or the world out there<br>The eyes have long seen<br>The ears have long heard<br>Something different something delicate<br>When so young and so innocent<br>He kept telling them about the sound<br>And image of what he is<br>They laughed <br>It is something peculiar<br>Not the way they were brought up<br>All of them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is original. They laughed. They branded<br>Him a name he never liked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He likes himself. But he cannot fit in.<br>There is so much pain.<br>He becomes an attractive copycat.<br>Nice name. Nice belonging. <br>Perfect camaraderie. Nothing seemingly wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pain gets deeper. Like a hole inside his head<br>A hollowness in his heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is dark. It is late now.<br>They love him. But he wants to die.<br>They are wrong. It is not the dark that blinds.<br>It is too much light. Too many.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486354" data-title="Being Original de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="BEING ORIGINAL Of course no one wants to be a fake A copycat Not that one has no mind of his own A perspective Or a way of seeing things the way one sees Oneself Or the other or the world out there The eyes have long seen The ears have long hear..."></div> </div> </div>

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