Different

It is the oddest experience
Walking through this world
People look like you
They talk like you
The words are the same
But you are not them

There is a difference
Imperceptible from the outside
As vast as an ocean
You stand on one side and stare across
Does no one see like you see?
Is there not a voice that chimes with yours?

Aloneness.
Aloneness and loneliness.
There are only differences that become chasms
Everyone speaks but no one says the same words

You will never see
That I am not you
And you are not me
We will never be the same
I cannot speak as you speak
I see the world in a different light
I am bound by different ties

You may as well be speaking Chinese
I may as well be mute
Struck dumb by my difference
Unable to use words that carry meaning
That you can understand