IMPERVIOUS TO BORDERS   (mid 1990's- early 2000's; Galveston Island Texas)

 
   
i am a color  
moving through borders  
though seldom seen  
or known  
some borders are set  
some are unmarked  
some borders are free  
and then sometimes  
at times  
but not very often  
especially these days  
anymore  
there are no borders at all  
therefore  i am a color  
free from and impervious to  
borders  boundaries  
and other such word label limits  
just as i feel i am  
equally free from  
and impervious to  
the thoughts  words  
judgments  misjudgments and opinions  
of and from others  
whom i intuitively sense and know  
don t  won t or can t  
ever come close to really understanding me  
nor whom will never come to  
ever truly know me  
more fully  
more  
wholly  
at all
yet
this has been
my predominant fate
with most other people
the majority
of other human beings
i have ever met
family  friends
and strangers alike
throughout this entire
long  strange  lonesome
journey
of my ever mystifying
still ongoing
life