‘Twas no stranger experience; Than to meet myself: A stranger To learn of others, without seeing them… But instead, seeing what I projected into the space they occupied ...Oh, what pain it is to see! Guilt, Grief, ambiguous Trauma - the realization of never having met another - Just myself, a stranger The number of characters met which only embodied my reality • Such loneliness Now, having met myself - a stranger no more Guilt, Grief, Trauma - ever present at my door I find I meet you; again, I see you, at last all of the same pieces as me, struggling as I did I wait for you to grow now I pray for you to be a stranger no more