To feel alone is relative
To how you feel when you are with
Other people not of yours
Whether here
Or off these shores.

Differences abound in all
When each would take a different path.
But yet conform to certain rules
'Lest one incurs the body's wrath.

A group is what the body stands
For in this world of differences.
Where all must fear what it demands
When all that counts is appearances.

Should you feel apart and stupid
Or arrogant, smart and rightly just-
Ified to care 'bout what's inside if
Nothing's to be placed in trust?

Rebel! Pet! Buttkiss! Wretch!
Fighting words, yet some may match.
Succumb to them
And then you see
Why others treat you differently.

In that sorry state you dwell
Thinking everything is swell
But the moment head does rise
See what lies inside your eyes.

See what lies inside your heart,
Whether together or apart
Is what you see when you are with
A group, the body you subsist.




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