Tags
anxiety, april, brain disease, isolation, journal, junior high, mental illness, mentally ill, misfits, not belonging, outsider, poetry, poetry month, schizophrenia], writing
(My contribution to poetry month)
OUTSIDER AS ADULT
Like in junior high
Dodgeball
Two captains
My peers
Pick my classmates
One by one
With each name called
I pray
My name will be next
It is painful
This process
Whittling down
Students to
Two or three
I am the final
One standing
Not chosen
At all
But placed
On the second captain’s team
A loss
Before the game
Even begins