one stranger away

path to seeing yourself lies one stranger away

path to knowing yourself lies one stranger away

path to inner peace lies one stranger away

path to world peace lies one stranger away

I ADMIT

i saw myself

i learned myself

i found inner peace

world was peaceful for my existence in it

UNTIL IT WAS NOT

system dumbed strangers down,

i stopped having fun,

unmoving love paralyzed my best parts.

CORRECTIONS

some strangers are not deep

some strangers do not dream of leaving the world better than they found it

some never swam far enough from despair to meet hope

some never knew despair