Outsider's Lament

An expanded and edited version of my poetic response, to Jack's poem, "Sometimes you just don't belong". http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/jacki137/1294589/

As an outsider
Who's looking in
Your words ring true
With a powerful voice

In my head.

Which
We ignore
At our own peril

Too often.

No matter
How much we want
To belong to others

As friends and lovers.

Without selling
Our precious soul
For a handful

Of cheap beads.

In exchange

For a brief moment

Of normalcy.