"Strangers"

Marabola: Poetry
Comments:
April 2007
About distant family who I don't feel close to in the slightest, and rather uncomfortable around at best.


You’re my family
and you’re strangers.
Who are you, across the sea?
I think you’re strangers.

We – they – left you
and we’re the black sheep.
Deserted your ideals
and we’re the black sheep.

You’re moral people
and you’re so close-minded.
So it’s hard to hear each other
when you’re so close-minded.

You get preconceived ideas
when we see you once a year.
And I’m not who you imagine
when we see you once a year.

By your way of things
I’m a sinner and abomination.
So what would you do if you knew
I’m a sinner and abomination?

Maybe it’s sad that you’re family
and you’re strangers.
But given how things are, I think
it’s better we stay strangers.



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