Unhoused

I sat by them

And they left me

Alone

There were perks

To being bigger

Than the rest

I suppose.

The longer I sat

The more that

I understood

How little differed

Between us.

Not just in space

But in our paths

Our future

Trajectories

I had just drawn

A longer straw.

The merits didn’t

Mean a thing.

Most people

I would imagine

Would feel

Uncomfortable

But that was

Only because

They saw themselves

As different.

What I saw,

What I knew

Was we were

In fact

The same.

Two or three

Bad decisions

Unlucky breaks

Untimely fuck-ups

And I would be

You would be

Right there

With them

Just like I was

Right there

With them

Now.