Being different, It does not come easy.

How To Be Different

by Zoe Ramirez

Being different,

It does not come easy.

Especially in a place

Where everyone is the same.

Being different is

Not just standing out,

It's being unique.

It's the patient black sheep,

In a herd of scurrying white sheep.

You might not get it.

No, here in East Berlin,

Everyone is the same.

Being different, unique,

Is a big crime.

The Statsi watches us,

Our every move.

The people of East Berlin,

They are not succeeding,

But not failing either,

For they seem not to care.

I don't want to be like them,

I want to be different,

Because I think everyone should

Have the right to be different.

Being different is not a crime.

Individuality is not a weakness,

It is not a sickness of the West.

From my eyes,

Individuality is a strength.

It just might get us one

Step closer to getting

The Berlin Wall taken down.

So even in East Berlin,

I will speak what I think,

Do what I want,

And live how I want to live.

Because it is not a crime to be different.

It is what being unique is.