when you are ‘different,’

some days you walk

slow through water

while others run free,

 

struggle to lift a weight

everyone else appears

to carry with ease.

 

not quite fitting in

is having all the ingredients

to prepare the meal of life

right there on your shelf

 

but the recipe is smudged,

guesswork involved.

 

this sometimes leads to being

misunderstood by those

whose pages are clean.

 

but go out into the world anyway,

differences intact,

do not hide your creative light

your unique way of seeing

your own particular shine.

 

you are the movers,

the shakers,

the out-of-box thinkers

and you have much perspective

that this world needs.

 

please don’t let us down.

 

–for all my neuro-spicy people.

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