A Nightmare of Strangeness

A NIGHTMARE OF STRANGENESS

Everything is beautiful outside-
And yet within a nightmare of strangeness-

All that is not me,
Is so overwhelmingly great-
And I am so small.

How can I be at all,
In this huge empty silence,
Where no one knows or cares for me?

poem by Shalom Freedman
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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