Who are We?
Modern distractions
A populace ensnared
To them it’s normal
For us it’s war
We’re the ghosts
The societal outcasts
The imperfect scholars
The one person army
Yet no one knows
Not about the struggles
Or the daily battles
They don’t see anything
We don’t care
Not about what they think
We don’t feel the need to
There are more important things
We’re the kids that can’t sit still
But all our energy is used up
Fruitless attempts to focus
Wishing we were normal
When our eyes are tired
When our minds are numb
We continue fighting
Traveling this mental warpath
We wake up daily
Fully aware of what awaits us
We know we’ll be challenged
That we’ll want to quit
But we stand tall
We face our demons head-on
It’s us against the world
And we’re determined to win
We are imperfect
But we are who we are
Who are we?
We are the ADHD crowd
Rationale
When I wrote my poem Who are We?, the one goal I had was to make the a seemingly imaginary population real. Many people have heard about ADHD, but most don’t realize how close they are to those who suffer from it. Other’s think it’s a joke—something to laughed about. I myself never realized how much of an impact ADHD had until I developed it. My hope is that, by writing this poem, I can make others with ADHD feel less alone and make those who are ‘normal’ more aware of the struggles we face. While writing this poem, I focused on how ADHD makes me feel and used that to create a poem addressing the population, from us. And who is this ‘us’? We are the ADHD crowd.
