Belonging

Your people, your kinfolk

are out there

it may take you 

half of your life to find them

sometimes you may find them

and lose them again

or find them and still feel

like there are days

that you don’t fit

it may be that 

other people look at you

from the outside and

don’t understand.

I am telling you 

that every second of waiting

will be worth it

and all the complexity 

that you are layering 

into yourself each day

with your art and knowledge

will be what you bring to the table. 

Finding one or three

or ten people who love

who you are and want to 

see you in the morning 

breaks the old world 

off of you like a shell

once that happens you will

start to make 

the kind of art that burns 

the paper it is printed on or

turns the television screen black

from the fire of it. 

I don’t know you but

I know the place you are 

living in because

I have also lived there 

and I want you to believe 

that soon you can start 

flinging the doors open 

because someone 

is coming for you. 

Photo courtesy of David McCaskill

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