No One Just Like Me

I wake up in the morning

With a smile on my face

A sweet sadness in these eyes

But I walk out with grace

I’ve been down, been pushed around

But I’m not giving up

I’ll freak out, I’ll flip out

But I’m not breaking down

I breathe out to the ocean,

I sing out to the sea

There’s a whisper in the waves

That says “there’s no one just like me”

I walk to the broken bridge

And I laugh at the irony

There’s a carving in its cracks

That reads “there’s no one just like me”

I dream of my mother, holding her child

Blissful, the innocence, and the way that it feels

I smile, she smiles, there's a twinkle in her eyes

That says “there’s no one just like me”

I walk back home and I don’t feel so low

The girl in my mirror smiles at me

There’s a story in her smile

That reads “there’s no one just like me”

Her hair is always in a perfect mess

And she never wears the perfect dress

This girl, they say, has been through a lot

But this girl is everything they think she is not!

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