Notes from Exile: Strangers
Log/Verse: daily reflections from prison, written every morning at my bunk. Part poem, part log book.
For this week’s Notes from Exile, I’m sharing a short piece that captures another facet of the quiet unraveling that happens inside. STRANGERS is a brief meditation on that transformation.
STRANGERS
I was always afraid of
strangers,
now I live with
them.
Even the word
scares me:
Strangers.
But each day they
coalesce,
while I am becoming
day by
day,
the strangest stranger
here.
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