Just Because

Christopher

My friends tell me

to forget it.

Girls like her

don’t go out

with guys

like me.

They say it

like I have

a disease,

Just because

I’m shy

like them

And good at school

and belong to

the AV Club

like them

And have acne

like some

of them.

None of those things

mean I don’t

have feelings.

Even Galileo

knew that all things

fall at the same rate

Whether they’re

light as

feathers

Or heavy

as stone,

like me.