You Don't Know

You don't know

How it feels

To be the one always hated

To be the "last resort"

You don't know

What it's like

To always be chosen last

Or

For people to talk to you

Only because no one else is available

Maybe if you knew

Then you wouldn't

Hate me

Or treat me as a "last resort"

Maybe if you knew

Then you wouldn't

Choose me last

You would talk to me because you wanted to --

Not because no one else was available

You don't know

But would it be any different if you did?

-Allison Gossage (2008)