Is it as it Seems?

[Johnna]

Ok... this is what happens when you finish your homework before seminar is over. It's my longest poem yet It's not spiritual... though I do have spiritual poems if anyone wants to hear them. Just thought I'd post this one since I wrote it today:

Is it as it Seems?
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Watch me go
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My talents will amaze!
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So just sit back and relax
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And watch in a daze!
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Notes of all pitches
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Whirl around your head.
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My ‘beautiful’ voice
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Will lull you to bed.
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Images will surround
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Of a whole different kind.
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The colors of my drawings
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Will fill up your mind!
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My writing will capture,
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Make you laugh, make you cry.
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It’s often caused people
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To go on a spiritual high.
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My sense of humor will poke you
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Make your mood completely glide.
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And you’ll laugh so hard
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That you’ll hurt in the side!
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You’ll be amazed at these talents
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Then you’ll remember what others said...
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“She’s a freak!
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Something must be wrong with her head!
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She’s an anime fanatic
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That learns Japanese for fun
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And with her sense of humor
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I wouldn’t trust her with a gun!”
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Then when you decide
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To peek into my mind
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The pride of my talents
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Is not what you’ll find:
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“I seem to be an inconvenience
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Would the world be better off without
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A girl in the crowd
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That so sorely sticks out?
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All I feel I’m really good at
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Is hurting the ones I love
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And crying over my faults from the past.
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But nobody must hear this silent dove.”
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So do as I said!
Go ahead! Be amazed!
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Though talents are worthless
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When you feel lost in a maze.
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Which girl do you see
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When you look in my eyes?
The one with the smile
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Or the one that always cries?
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Is it as it seems?
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