Stranger

‘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

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