They say
   "You are supposed
      to act like all of us."
But I was always
   turned off by this
      routine expectation

Why should I be like
   just anyone 
When I can lift
   my own creative
      arms
And grope for systems
   of emotion
That were only mine
And hidden from the species
Like the secret
   message on decoder rings
And magic passwords
Buried deep within a wizard's
   mystic things

(c) 1996 James Oliver Smith, Jr