I'm Not Suicidal Just Because I'm Different

“Don’t worry, be happy!”
Is what you mindless drones say
With your commercialised tones
Your bright coloured clothes
With those peppy little slogans
Tell me
Would you still be wearing them
If they weren’t in fashion?
“Don’t be all emo!”
You chide and cheep
Shoving your little opinions up my nose
Like those little cocktail sausages
I’m not emo
That’s your little misconception
And by the way
If you think tattoos are “feral”
That’s fine with me
Just don’t you dare try
To make me think it too
“Wear some colour!”
You all chirp together
God
Those hours of commercials
Have turned your brains to pap
Red is a colour
Green is a colour
And no, I’m not going to wear fluoro
Just because everyone else is doing it
Do you even like florescent?
Or is some obscure famous teen
Flaunting it as well as their ribs
“Why are you so antisocial?”
The adults jointly cry
Wringing their wrinkled hands at my “sarcasm”
Sarcasm? What sarcasm?
I’m speaking my mind
No, I won’t respect you
Just because of your numerous wrinkles
I’m antisocial because the world
Is full of idiots
Trying to change me so I
Become a plain white sheep
“Aren’t you ever happy?”
Fuck.
Why don’t you just say it?
You think I’ll kill myself
Before I’m even twenty
Just for the fact
That I refuse to be
One Of The Herd