other people

people have always been "strangers" to me

i remember as a kid, looking at people

and pictures of people from my mothers era

they all looked so foreign to me

that never really went away

i see people everyday

but they are so strange to me

they look like me, kinda

but they don't act like me

they don't think like me

i don't feel like there is anything in any of them

worth knowing

the more i try to interact

the less i feel like any of them have any value

do i feel lonely? all of the time!

but none of them ever make me feel less lonely

none of them ever do anything but stand in my way

no one adds to my life

they just misdirect it and try to fit themselves in

usurp and confuse my process

i am making mistakes in trusting in other people