Welcome

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I can see it in your eyes I am not welcome.
Those little looks you give your friends,
Every eye roll you take when I speak,
The small judgemental glances.

I can hear it in you voice I am not welcome.
It's the way you ignore me when I speak,
The way you talk to everyone else but me,
That horrible judgemental laugh.

I can feel it in myself I am not welcome.
It's the uncomfortable sensation in my gut,
My itchy prickling watery eyes,
The slowly sinking drowning feeling of exclusion.

Irrelevant.
A Scrape.
Annoying.
Boring.
I know that those words mean I am not welcome.


'I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full, my body loved, and my souls understood' Melissa Cox


AN: a while ago there was a clip of Emma Watson talking about the feeling you get when your unwelcome somewhere or excluded and it's such a nasty painful feeling and I was reminded of that clip today so I though I'd write this

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