Outsider
I am not like you
Maybe I look like you
Like you expect me to look
But you know
Appearances are deceiving
I am the devil on the fence post
Never choosing
This side
Or that side
I mind my own counsel
I keep to myself
I don’t even try
To play well with others
I have my own fun
Do things my own way
Observe that which is lost
By too many others
I am the raven at the window
Not even thinking
Of tapping on the glass
I am fine looking in
Safe out here on the sill
I am Outside
Outside even from myself
The river rages on
Yet I never flinch