Apartness

Within this space

between me

and the people that look like they don’t see me,

is where I freeze in the smallness of our differences.

Threads of familiarity dance around the illusion 

that we have nothing in common.

Truth blows with the winds we share-

unseen but filling our lungs with connection.

Closing in on the space

between me

and the people that look like they don’t see me.