Poem by Elisha Gug

The Diversity Rhyme

It’s hard sometimes feeling like you never truly belong,
when all you’ve wanted is to fit in all along,
yet you pretend you’re fine,
but deep down i’ve always felt like this country was mine,
but sometimes I feel like a stranger,
when the media makes people believe I am the danger,
I feel like people never truly understand,
how can my sense of belonging have a brand,
all I want is to be myself,
but sometimes instead of reaching out to people I find my way to a bookshelf,
I don’t have to belong to a certain group of people there,
and sometimes I feel like people never truly care,
to find out who I actually am,
but would much rather place me in a box of a diagram.