Stranger

Dark stranger, the outsider, doing time.
You don't belong, no matter who you get in with.
On your pointed face,
you bear as scars
the stripes and weals of the lash.
No one has discovered what lies beneath
the battered front lines, not even you.
You're running blind and scared,
crashing barriers without regard to who they are,
but still held back.
You've danced motionless as danger's partner,
just this side of oblivious
to envious glass-eyed stares.
An excellent swimmer, you're drowning.
You carry wariness with defiance,
the two painted in smoky swirls on your wiry frame.

PamFriedEhli/1990




Since 1-20-03


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