The world closes in around you,
And you wonder if you ever were sane.
I sit in my sullen state, day after day,
Wondering if I was really me
At one time long ago.
Do I belong here or somewhere else?
I belong here, yet I don't.
I long for home, but I've been forgotten.

**published in Lakeholm Viewer in 1998, Mount Vernon Nazarene College's own newspaper

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