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Sunday, February 7, 2010

strangers and friends....

Day 38

Thought I'd write a quick poem...won't publicize this too much..if you catch it you do if you don't...you won't.


Have you ever looked around you..like the people u deal with and just feel like they're all strangers?
...and what about the strangers? Have you ever seen lifetimes go by in their eyes? their laugh? their walk?
And of the friends...those who swore they'd stand by your side...how do you feel about gaining their trust, their loyalty, their promise to always be when all you can think about is getting away?
And of the strangers...why do their words penetrate you're being...criticism or praise; when those familiar voices barely catch your attention?...and conversations are reduced to "huh's?" absent "yea's" and the all too common repetition of the last words spoken in a sentence to pretend you share an interest.
And you silently ponder why strangers seem to have more faith in your ability and dreams while your friends laugh, sigh, or shrug your ambitions off...or maybe they support you because "you've always been the smart and successful one" and that's just what's expected of you.And with slight reflection you realize those strangers don't judge you because they don't know enough about you to do so...that one day those strangers will become friends and that at one time those friends were strangers...

-Rahkim