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The Rotten Tomato

I’ll never be good enough.
Nothing I can do or say
will change this and
although words do hurt,
your obliviousness hurts equally.
 
Are my dreams not satisfactory enough for you?
My beliefs?
My wants?
My standards?
Me?
Am I not satisfactory enough for you?
 
Cause when you compare
me to the others, other,
it’s as if I’m an unworthy cause.
It’s as if I’m the rotten tomato
that spoils a perfectly good meal.
 
And although I will not change,
although I’m stubborn and different
and forever that rotten tomato in your
perfectly good meal,
at least I’ll have my dreams.
At least I’ll stand out and be different
from the others, other.
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