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Always the stranger

Steve Tohari 1948 (London)

Free verse
All my life
I’ve tried to join
the human race
but
It just won’t
have me

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It is so hard to feel alone, a stranger in a strange land. I want so much to belong.

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Written on October 09, 2021

Submitted by stevetohari on October 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 72
Words 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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