Stranger

I am a stranger,

I cannot help it,

It is the way I was born.

I will never belong,

And though I will always try to fit in

I will always fail.

I have learned that not belonging anywhere

Is not really a failure, it is a victory.

I have already won by not being chained to a reality that everyone else is born into.

I will never feel time the way they do.

I will love harder and deeper than they are capable of.

I will be what no one else can be.

I am a stranger.

Not a sinner.

Not an alien.

Not something that needs to be poked and prodded.

I am just new. And I will stay new as long as I am living.

And when I die, I will be new again.

I am a stranger,

And that makes me strange to those who are not strangers

But it also makes me silently powerful,

Like the moon and the way it pulls the ocean.

I pull humanity without a single word.

-AshleyAnne