be yourself
they say.
it's okay to be yourself
everyone is different.
unique some might say.
each have their own personality.
their own selves

what a bunch of
****.
everyone i've met is eerily the same.
it's the same tone,
same pace
all is
bleak
dull
deafeningly irritating.

where have the passionate, the thoughtful
the mysterious, the brooding
the tortured, the observant
gone?

nothingness

they say we are intelligent
as a species
but i look around
we are only as intelligent
as we make of life
make from life
and
i say
we aren't reaching
the fullest potential
a species,
us can reach.
should reach.

instead of reaching for
mutual respect
of our similar differents,
love
we reach for violence
war
between each other
our brothers and sisters
who breathe the same air
who bleed
the same
we ****
our own kind
instead of mutual respect

so this is why

our different
isn't any different
my different
is no different than
their different

different
is not
different enough.