#19: Without and Amidst

I chose to be a stranger in a strange land today.

I gave myself a shove and hurled myself into a world I don't belong to but I know I can fit in. I can be a chameleon. I will look just like anybody and be nobody.

I will blend in, unnoticed, while I eavesdop and peep into this little hole in their coffee-drinking lives.

In this estrangement, I will know who I am without everybody, while I'm amidst everybody.

Alone, I'll be charming in my surrendered sadness.

Dec. 3, 2007; 9:40pm