DIFFERENT IS UNIQUE
Woke from a horrid nightmare.
I was being bullied by people I knew,
bullied by the many, not the few,
where I was scared but nobody cared
where name calling was nothing new.
I had my glasses smashed
And my hopes dashed
I was called four eyes, queer, poof and
I was lashed
With my own belt from my school shorts
They didn't care what i thought
I am a human, just a boy
I feel and I fear, living without joy
Who can I tell without being ashamed
I know these bullies must be named.
I can't tell anyone what they say
Cause then people might know that I'm gay
I'm just a teenager, finding who I am
But you don't care, you don't give a damn
One day you'll grow up and realise what
You did
Bullied me daily so in the end I hid
My feelings away for the final school years
Until when I left it ended in tears
I tried to take my own life
To stop all the pain
I wasn't going to let them hurt me again
But someone saw me at the station
My heart started to thump
As the train was pulling in
I was ready to jump
I was pulled back from the edge
By a stranger - a man
He saved my life and he gave me a plan
To share what I'd been through
To not be afraid
To tell a friend or an adult
All that I knew
That I kept locked inside
since I was seven
And I dreamed every day
that I could be in heaven
So I'm sharing with you
In the hope you will share
This message on your timeline or wall
And help victims stand tall.
When you share on your timeline
Please ask your friends to share
I don't want to be famous
I just want people to care
About how it feels to be bullied
And live in fear
Day after day
Year after year
Now you're an adult
you can understand
You did nothing wrong
You're not on remand
Your sentence has ended
You've been acquitted
Because you had fight
And you admitted
You were bullied and beaten
And in speaking out
The bullies lost their power
Their gang broken, no longer could they shout.
So please share this message
For just one reason
To raise awareness,
And not just for a season
I want this message to go global
So can you be noble
Click like and then share this
message to your timeline or wall
And give this message to bullies and make THEM feel small.
Doesn't matter if your different
That makes you unique
Who needs to be part of a clique
Of insecure children who gang up
Together
To bully the powerful not the weak
Cause the victims have the power
If only they would speak
Bullies are the victims
Of their own insecurity
So they take it out on someone else
Cause they can't show maturity
So please share this message
And help someone else
Who may need help to speak out
Don't keep it to yourself
So click like and share
And ask your friends do the same
So we can end bullying
And put the bullies to shame
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