Misfit

18/06/2020 – Iso Well-Being Compilation

 

I don’t fit in anywhere

And I don’t think I ever will.

I’m not like you in any regard

And I don’t want to be.

 

I know that people aren’t like me

I know they prefer others company

But I’m happy in my little bubble

Though it’s taken a while to get there.

 

I don’t fit in at work,

Where I have always felt other.

I don’t like the enforced social gatherings

Or team building exercises.

 

All I want to do, when walking in the door,

I do my job as best I can

Then leave that world behind me

When my shift comes to a close.

 

I didn’t fit in at mothers’ group

Where I was much younger that the clique.

They’re Stepford uniformity and in-jokes

Did nothing to put me at ease.

 

I’ve tried to be engaging,

To be interested in your lives,

But they all seem so the same to me –

All cut from the same mould.

 

I don’t fit in at hobby groups

Because I’m not the social sort.

I want to be recognised for achievement,

Not win any popularity contest.

 

I’ve always put my hand up

For the things that others won’t do.

Stepped outside my comfort zone

And been prepared to take that risk.

 

I didn’t fit in at school

Where I always felt isolated.

I was the one not invited to the parties

Or picked last to partner in class.

 

As the years went on, I realised

This was not the place for me.

But there was nowhere else I could go

To escape the taunts and ridicule.

 

I don’t fit in at the local pubs

Where I’m too shy to talk to anyone.

Too many years of rejection

Absolutely takes its toll.

 

It was much the same story at nightclubs

Where no one wanted to dance with me.

I would get lost in the music, instead,

But you looked at me like I’m a freak.

 

I didn’t fit in with sports groups

Where I was always the mother hen.

Unable to relate to people my age

Because I was so used to adult company.

 

I never wanted or expected adulation

For a talent that was mediocre, at best,

But simply recognition for all the effort

That I had put in.

 

I don’t fit in anywhere

And I’m ok with that.

I’d rather be my own person

Than just like everyone else.

 

Show me, where’s your uniqueness hidden?

Where’s your passion, your emotional side?

Where’s your sympathy, your empathy

And your human understanding?