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Outcasts Change The World
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It is always the Outcasts who change the world
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the ones scorned early on
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in school, or family
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by the opposite sex
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the beautiful
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or the super-talented
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by massive systems
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who count them, us
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as useless
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by the ruthless
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the rich
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the strong
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the hidden psychopaths
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the institutions
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all say
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you are nothing:
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fat,
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or ugly
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or poor
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or crazy
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or dangerous
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unsmart
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wants you to go away.
Some cut themselves
drink to much
rail, flail helplessly
strike out blindly
huddle
in dark corners
in the back
in the booth
blot out
Life, Unbearable.
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But some of us don't believe it
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nourish that glimmer
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which states
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perhaps it is not me
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perhaps it is them
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and the world
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they have created
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a world which
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if truly superior
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to me
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would not treat me
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the way they treat
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me.
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Then two of us communicated
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then four
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16, 32, hundreds, thousands
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and the chorus rang out
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"It is not us"
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and the fear receded just enough
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for us to speak of it
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speak of the unspeakable
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those defined as losers
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realized they are the majority
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the righteous
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the wronged
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the human beings
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in a sea of predators
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the just
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and the only ones
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who could grasp
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the reins of true freedom
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from the greedy
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the grasping
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the complacent
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the mirror-logged
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the paralyzed
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the too fearful
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the suppressors
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of the many.
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The Outcasts
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realized that to live
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fully
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they had to change
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the world
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by showing up
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by protesting
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by casting off Shame
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by not accepting rules
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which made them feel bad
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about themselves
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by envisioning
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a better world.
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Outcasts
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are the only ones
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who can change the world.
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And they can do it
the same way Jesus did.
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| Reviewed by Ronald Hull |
2/3/2014 |
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A wonderful rant of a poem! And so true! I believe there is a beatitude that says, "the weak shall inherit the earth."
Ron |
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