The Different Path: an anti-bullying poem for kids. It gets better in the end.

The Different Path

They pick on you

Play tricks on you

They talk behind your back

A hundred whispers to your one

to tempt you from your track

They mock your path

They block your path

They do it every day

For sheep aren't meant to wander off

and go the other way

They sneer at you

Put fear in you

So scared that you'll go far

and then they point and laugh at you

to cram your head with scars

They think the same

They shrink the same

when you are not afraid

and friends begin to follow you

The scars and bullies fade

You go so far

You grow so far

Proud what you became

You made it down the different path

and beat the plague of same

©2009 Mark Bird

💡 My anti-bullying poem for kids explores how being true to yourself always wins out in the end. If you could write an anti-bullying poem for kids like you, what would your advice be. Maybe you could think about what makes bullies bully. Do bullies bully because they have been bullied themselves? Do bullies not like people who are different? I would love to share any anti-bullying poem for kids, for students or for anyone on my blog.