I am not what i appear
to be on the inside
I purposely feel people with fear
so i wont have to hide

from a society that shuns
those with bright new ideas
never treating us as the sons
of this country so full of pleas

I hold up this shield
from the outside peers
showing them that i will not yield
I will not share there fears

I am not afraid 
of the people that ignore
every accomplishment i have ever made
to them i am lower than the floor

but still i write
in the darkness of my life
hidden away in the shadows of night
muttering whispers of my strife