STRANGER WITHIN

~STRANGER WITHIN~

I’m a stranger in my own home

A ghost among the living

People can’t find me-they can’t see me

I’m invisible!

A convict in my own family

Everyone passing his verdicts

I’m a culprit-I have lost my value

But I have been the same since times old

Just a mustache and a beard

Is all the difference.

I’m a stranger in my own land

A disease to my birth right

An intruder to my thoughts

No more interesting to society

I have lost my family, I have lost the same

People and thing that once gave me hope

Or maybe I’m still been secretly cherished

I don’t know.

Everyone is afraid of me with reasons untold

Maybe my long hair looks like Medusa

But it’s just me.

I have lost my voice and cannot be heard

When I utter a thing.

Yet waiting to hear me speak first

So they could laugh

I have lost my hearing

 I have lost my mind

My sight and myself-Yet I’m still me!

I’m a stranger to my own family and society

No one wants to smile at me- all faces stern,

But if I‘m not invited in your midst,

If you can’t see me as human-as equals

Just let me know-that I may

Keep my distance and go find solace in the wilderness

Where even the lions will smile at me

And beckon me to go lie with them

For me being hairy just as them.

---Fampah Coyish---

© By Fampah Coyish-Awoken By Poems 2014