Ode To the Outsider

Barry Dell “Ode to the Outsider” Poem Outsider ousted with high self esteem, confidence protruding makes living most carefree. Traveling the States with timeless zeal, trailblazing a path only God can reveal. Listening, learning life subtle cry, sharing a faith boldness can inform. A different drummer does an inward gaze, oceans of knowledge binds Community’s grave. Speaking of that community resolves conflicts are fleeting When we hear loves beacon call. Call of the wild, the outsider feels, how to be true amid Life’s unexpected thrills? Sharing our wounds, heals the tribe, builds the people till community Thrives. Thrives it must if society progresses, like birds in formation, toward heavens upward Destination. Dream big we say to the kids all around, hoping and wishing for a better sound, Sounds of redemption, Loves early light, pulling us upward to new progressive sight. Take the Apple products we all know uniquely crafted by outsider Gates, taught us design For humans await, Waiting we are for inventors abound to change life’s trajectory For all to expound. What do we do with Jesse James, modern biker man outside the fold? Welcome embrace our brother esteem, remember our values of expanded empathy. Our world will change when we do this simple rhyme, embrace the outsider with a passion Untold. Then karma will accelerate him back in the fold. Acceptance is the answer, they say In AA, totally fine as we apply it today. Today is the now of eternity past, future forboding Loves strange looking glass. Let us see a bright future, we all invent, embracing the outsider Till all Is bent. Bend our minds God, we relent, releasing our struggle for all to ferment.