Untitled by Simon - but I call it "OUTSIDER" Do you know what it is to be an outsider on the other side of the fence? How alone you would feel, if excluded you were. Does it make any sense? Can you imagine the isolated soul with no-one in sight to hear the cries and the tears that your heart would shed, and the constant, looming fear? Can you see in your mind the life of a man without anywhere to belong? Because a society judged him unworthy, because they think they're right, and that means he's wrong. Try and imagine the pain that you'd feel, with sneers and hateful words, and spit at your heels. What would it be like if the gates were locked; you couldn't get in, and you couldn't get out? Imagine the feeling that you're worthless, some dirt that's been stepped on by someone's uncaring shoe. Perhaps at that point it's too much for your heart, and you take your own life, to stop it hurting you. Imagine this world, for maybe a minute, after that you can stop; you don't like it, sure, but there are people who go through this every day, and they can't stop it, unless they're no more. So when you hear of hate, bigots and death, Don't side with the haters, cause that's how you've been bred. Imagine how it is, or was for that guy, The one that's hurt, or lying dead. So imagine the feelings and memories too Of people oppressed, hated, abused; Of people who lived outside of that fence And what they came to - does it make any sense?

Personal note by me, Garith.... Simon's friend This poem, in my opinion, expresses a very basic feeling that most, if not all gay people, as well as other persecuted minorities, might experience in today's life. And for it to have to be a reality for even the kids of this world, seems to me, to point to symptoms of something very very wrong with our societies today. I know about Simon enough to know that he is not a bad person, and should never have to personally feel the painful emotions his poem expresses. He is fair minded, very intelligent, creative, and an overall lovable guy. He doesn't pick fights or throw bricks through windows, but yet, he has known more rejection, and felt more pain from that rejection, than anyone his age should ever have to endure. A 90 year old person on their death bed shouldn't have had to go through some of the things that Simon has already had to deal with in his short life. And the worst part is... some kids have it even worse than Simon. It angers me.... and it breaks my heart.... and it confuses me beyond all understanding.... "WHY" do we do this? Why are we as modern, civilized, supposedly intelligent human-beings so full of hatred and stupidity that we torture and terrorize innocent people who are guilty of nothing more than being themselves? They aren't hurting anyone... they aren't trying to change the world to be like them... they aren't pointing people out to harass and condemn. So why are they being made to feel like an Outsider? To my buddy Simon... and to all the other "Simons" out there in the world.... "Don't ever give up, and never let anyone steal your dreams, or destroy your self-esteem. I love you... and so does the Creator, and anyone else who truly understands the meaning of love."

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