Outcasts

Cast out from society

For trying to find who we want to be

An outsider is all they see

When they look at you and me.

They only see what they want us to be,

Our differences, they won’t believe.

Our independence set us free

Cast us away from society

So we can be who we are and will always be.

Gossip

Secrets shared

From misheard statements

Creating false beliefs

That spread

Like an illness

Crushing ecosystems

And organisms

Standing in its path

Hoping to create a barrier

To save society

But the illness grows

Overcomes

And swallows it whole.