Here,  but

                                                                not present

 

the appearance of being part of a group

                                                                yet not belonging

 

There was a time I was attached;  aligned

                                                                wore the shirts,  sang the songs 

 

so long ago now

                                                                there is just a vague memory of how it felt 

 

When I was one of many not

                                                               a single person far from home  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ex`tra*ne"i*ty (?), n.

State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness.

[Obs.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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